{"title":"John Harte","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Harte\u003c\/strong\u003e offers compelling narratives that delve into the complex interplay of history and personal experience. His works explore pivotal moments and figures in 20th-century history, providing nuanced insights into the forces that shaped the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect meticulously researched biographies and military histories that bring to life the strategies, rivalries, and characters behind significant events. \u003cem\u003eChurchill's Enemies, 1927–1940\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Greatest Spy\u003c\/em\u003e exemplify his skill in blending rigorous scholarship with engaging storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-greatest-spy-by-john-harte-9781510784819","title":"The Greatest Spy","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen a twenty-year-old Ukrainian arrived in London as a candidate for the position of secret agent in Britain's Secret Intelligence Bureau, the chiefs of what would one day become MI5 were wise to hire him, as he would become Britain's greatest spy, a man known by several names.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis ingenuity and his mastery of the trade, and his audacity and coolness when in danger, were highly praised. To penetrate the Irish Republican Army (IRA), he was given the code name of Sidney Reilly. He was tasked with kidnapping Lenin and Trotsky during the Russian Revolution, and visited the major battlefronts across Soviet Russia during the civil war, sending back proposals to defeat the Reds. He stole Germany's naval plans from Krupp and the harbor plans in Mongolia for Britain's allies, and he posed as a German officer to engage in discussions with the Kaiser and his chiefs of staff about their U-boat tactics against the Allies. He also helped to obtain oil from Persia to modernise Britain's Naval Fleet when Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1953, novelist Ian Fleming used Reilly's secret Admiralty Intelligence file to write his novels about a fictional secret agent he called James Bond 007. But Reilly's true exploits were even more thrilling and fantastic than those of the fictional James Bond. Reilly was Britain's best spy  but was he also a Soviet double-agent?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor John Harte retells Reilly's story as it really was, in fast-moving prose with an eye for telling detail  and provides a twist: He tells us what really happened to Reilly after he vanished in Soviet Russia in 1925 and was assumed to have been murdered by Stalin's secret police. Find out what really happened to the man who inspired the creation of the world's most famous spy in \u003ci\u003eThe Greatest Spy\u003c\/i\u003e. But Bond's adventures were fantasies, whereas Reilly's were real.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363113189612,"sku":"9781510784819","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24870443482725.jpg?v=1772914329"},{"product_id":"churchills-enemies-1927-1940-by-john-harte-9781036103194","title":"Churchill's Enemies, 1927– 1940","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemarkably ambitious in scope, Harte manages to knit together a social and cultural history of these years, including how Churchill both influenced the world and was defined by the issues of the day. Harte wants to show when and where the 'scrawny little twenty-year-old second lieutenant became a global leader.' The question is not a new one, but it never fails to fascinate.\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eInternational Churchill Society\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChurchill's Enemies\u003c\/em\u003e describes Winston Churchill's main challenges when he was out of office from 1929-1939. They were the rise to dictatorship of Benito Mussolini in Italy and the adaptation of his fascist system by the Nazi Party in Germany. It also explains the relevance of Hitler's collaboration with the Mufti of Jerusalem in the Middle East, who spread Nazi ideology in Jerusalem, Gaza, and Lebanon - and how, step by step, the two European dictators destroyed democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis account of the first half of Winston Churchill's life should help readers to understand how today's world crisis began. The Cairo Conference was the West's first attempt to bring the Arab world into the twentieth century by solving the Middle East crisis in 1921. It also shows how Churchill changed from an ambitious young politician to an elder statesman as a consequence of his experiences in the changing world with all its complexities, paradoxes, and ambiguities - and how his decisions still impact world politics today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe major menaces with which he was confronted throughout his political career were the chaos caused by Islamist terrorists in the Middle East from 1918 and the spread of communism and fascism when he was Minister for War and then Colonial Secretary. The author described the first two threats in his previous book, \u003cem\u003eChurchill's Challenges\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e John Harte has written 21 books of modern social history about what caused us to be where we are today; several still scheduled for future publication. Eight titles are about Winston Churchill, with references attributing over 3,000 sources, including other historians or historical documents. Only one other historian has written as many books about Winston Churchill. That was his official biographer, the greatly esteemed Sir Martin Gilbert, who had access to all of Churchill's correspondence and official documents. Since John studied all of Gilbert's books, his narratives also benefit from the products of Sir Martin Gilbert's scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author was born in London, England and educated at St. Paul's School, and Carleton University in Ottawa where he studied psychology. His home is now in Canada, where he writes books about the movers and shapers of history who gave meaning and purpose to our lives. Most are about injustice and the struggle for societies to achieve common decency. In the course of his travels and studies, he has observed the decline or collapse of several different countries and, as described in these pages, all for the same reasons. 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The British Government and the United States, and Stalin, realised that if Hitler used \u003cem\u003eThe Atom Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e, it could mean the end of the West or the end of the world. John Harte's new book about \u003cem\u003eThe Manhattan Project\u003c\/em\u003e describes how Soviet Russia's leading spymasters in Moscow Centre obtained information from British and American physicists to make a Soviet atomic bomb at each and every stage when the American bomb was developed at Los Alamos in New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e John Harte was an investigative journalist in Britain who now writes books in Canada on how recent history impacts our lives today. His investigations were focused in particular on the two extreme political regimes - Communism and Fascism - that caused the global crisis after the Russian Revolution and civil war in 1917-1923. He observed the rise of the Nazis in Germany while growing up in London during the Battle of Britain. He visited postwar Germany in 1949. Two years later he discovered a plot to take over Britain by the former leader of the British Union of Fascists, Sir Oswald Mosley. He spent a year traveling across the British Isles to create a dossier which was presented to Parliament. The ensuing scandal prevented Mosley from making a political comeback and ended his career. John also travelled to Zagreb to study Communism in Yugoslavia from Tito's youngest partisan, and returned to Croatia years later during its war of independence. He spent some years living in South Africa and observed the apartheid regime. He also observed the war of independence in Mozambique (formerly Portuguese West Africa, now Maputo). 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