Bibliograph

Champagne and meatballs, adventures of a Canadian communist, Bert Whyte ; edited and with an introduction by Larry Hannant

Type

Label

Champagne and meatballs, adventures of a Canadian communist, Bert Whyte ; edited and with an introduction by Larry Hannant

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical endnotes and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Champagne and meatballs

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

691744583

Responsibility statement

Bert Whyte ; edited and with an introduction by Larry Hannant

Series statement

Working Canadians : books from the CCLH,, 1925-184X

Sub title

adventures of a Canadian communist

Summary

Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs -- a memoir written not long before his death in Moscow in 1984 -- we meet a cigar-smoking rogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat and camarad

Table Of Contents

Early years -- The 1930s -- The war -- Postwar years -- Letters from China, with a foreword by Monica Whyte -- Appendix

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