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

Published Edmonton : AU Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource Series Working Canadians : books from the CCLH, 1925-184X Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta.) Contents Early years -- The 1930s -- The war -- Postwar years -- Letters from China, with a foreward by Monica Whyte -- Appendix 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 camaraderie at the front lines in World War II, and of surviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought to light and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash, irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale is history and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye -- the left one, of course."--Publisher's description Notes Publisher's Web site: http://www.aupress.ca "Canadian Committee on Labour History." Bibliography Includes bibliographical endnotes and index Subject Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984. SUBJECT Whyte, Bert, 1909-1984 fast Subject Communist Party of Canada -- Biography SUBJECT Communist Party of Canada fast Subject Communists -- Canada -- Biography Journalists -- Canada -- Biography Soldiers -- Canada -- Biography Military biography -- Canada BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism. Communists Journalists Soldiers Canada Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies Form Electronic book Author Hannant, Larry, 1950- Canadian Committee on Labour History. LC no. 2010674361 ISBN 9781926836096 192683609X 9781459340268 1459340264 9781926836348 1926836340 128297789X 9781282977891

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