Greenmantle A First World War Espionage Adventure of Ottoman Intrigue, British Intelligence, and a Middle East Conspiracy
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Taschenbuch
Verlag
CopycatSeitenzahl
144
Maße (L/B/H)
0,8/15,2/22,9 cm
Gewicht
201 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-285-2407-4
In Greenmantle, John Buchan extends the adventure-espionage mode he helped popularize in *The Thirty-Nine Steps*, sending Richard Hannay into the shifting political and religious landscapes of the First World War. The novel fuses pursuit narrative, imperial intrigue, and wartime propaganda, centering on a British attempt to thwart German efforts to incite Muslim revolt in the East. Buchan's prose is brisk, masculine, and atmospheric, combining clipped action with vivid topographical detail and a strong sense of geopolitical scale. As a wartime thriller, it reflects both Edwardian romance tradition and the anxieties of global conflict. Buchan was uniquely equipped to write such fiction. A Scottish novelist, statesman, and man deeply involved in imperial administration and wartime information work, he understood both the machinery of government and the imaginative power of national myth. His experience in propaganda and intelligence-adjacent circles informs the novel's convincing strategic texture, while his broader literary culture lends even its most breathless passages a firm rhetorical control. *Greenmantle* emerges from this intersection of political knowledge and narrative craft. This book is especially recommended to readers interested in early spy fiction, wartime literature, and the ideological imagination of empire. Though marked by the assumptions of its age, it remains a gripping, historically revealing, and highly influential thriller.
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