Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel
- Submitting institution
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 25-03/621836
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- ISBN
- 9781643130187
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Highly acclaimed and reviewed by prestigious magazines like The TLS and The New Statesman, combining biography, history and politics, Our Man Down in Havana investigates the real story behind Greene's fictional narrative This includes his many visits to a pleasure island that became a revolutionary island, turning his chance involvement into a political commitment. His Cuban novel describes an amateur agent who dupes his intelligence chiefs with invented reports about "concrete platforms and unidentifiable pieces of giant machinery". Greene’s satirical tale had foretold the Cold War's most perilous episode, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
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- Non-English
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