By Dennis Wheatley
ISBN-10: 1448212790
ISBN-13: 9781448212798
1954
Dennis Wheatley is often prodigal within the richness of the fare he presents, and the island on which Gregory Sallust reveals himself is not any usual one. right here dwell a misplaced group of chinese language, governed via descendants of the traditional Imperial condominium. whilst the throne without warning turns into vacant, an day trip units out to discover the real inheritor. Its individuals contain Gregory himself and the girl A-lu-te, as charmingly stunning as her identify; their seek leads 10000 miles around the Pacific into the remotest areas of inland China and again back. demise in terrible varieties and treachery persist with them as heavily as their shadows. the following we have now fast-moving excessive event, with that tingle of the backbone which tells us that this can be classic Wheatley, the grasp at his so much skilful.
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The smart restaurants and hotels were full of rich people wolfing expensive meals, while for the working-class population food-prices had jumped enormously without any corresponding rise in wages… the queues for bread, olive oil, and other necessities were hundreds of yards long. The following month, the liberal politicians and their Stalinist allies felt strong enough to go onto the offensive. They used three lorry-loads of Assault Guards to evict the anarchist union federation, the CNT, from the Barcelona telephone exchange, one of the first buildings to be put under workers’ control the previous July.
It was fought where the borders of modern Israel, Syria, and Jordan meet, east of the Sea of Galilee at the Yarmuk Gorge. It pitted the new power of militant Arab Islam against a superior army of the Byzantine Empire. And it ended in a spectacular Arab victory. It must rank as one of the key battles in world history, because the Arabs took control of an area encompassing today’s Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan (while another, contemporary military campaign took today’s Iraq from the Sassanid-Persian Empire).
Communist Party (PCE) became increasingly powerful, and put a conservative brake on what it denounced as ‘ultra-left excesses’. It owed its influence largely to the fact that Stalin was supplying Russian military hardware. He who pays the piper calls the tune: Communist guns meant Communist influence. The PCE became a sinister counterrevolutionary force inside Republican ranks. Its slogan – ‘First win the war, then win the revolution’ – gulled many workers with hope while justifying the disarming of the militias and the return of the factories to the capitalists and the land to the landlords as long as the war lasted.
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