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First Published:
May 2006, 288 pages
Paperback:
May 2007, 288 pages
This article relates to The Foreign Correspondent
Alan Furst
has been compared to Graham
Greene and Eric Ambler, and is
considered by many to be the
master of the historical spy
novel. He is the author of
Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The
Polish Officer, The World at
Night, Red Gold, Kingdom
of Shadows and The
Foreign Correspondent.
Furst describes the area of his
interest as "near history." His
novels are set between 1933 and 1945, from Adolf Hitler's ascent, with the first Stalinist purges in Moscow coming a year later, to the end of the war in Europe. Because the history of this period is so well documented, Furst has ample access to books by journalists of the time, personal memoirs, autobiographies (many of the prominent individuals of the period wrote an autobiography), war and political histories, and characteristic novels written during those years.
This "beyond the book article" relates to The Foreign Correspondent. It originally ran in June 2006 and has been updated for the
May 2007 paperback edition.
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