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Beschreibung
'This is a biography of a nobody that offers a window into an otherwise closed world. It is a life which manages to touch us all...' Empire Made Me

Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic brutal and exciting cities - an incredible panorama of nightclubs opium-dens gambling and murder. Threatened from within by communist workers and from without by Chinese warlords and Japanese troops and governed by an ever more desperate British-dominated administration Shanghai was both mesmerising and [...] this maelstrom stepped a tough and resourceful ex-veteran Englishman to join the police. It is his story told in part through his rediscovered photo-albums and letters that Robert Bickers has uncovered in this remarkable moving book.
'This is a biography of a nobody that offers a window into an otherwise closed world. It is a life which manages to touch us all...' Empire Made Me

Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic brutal and exciting cities - an incredible panorama of nightclubs opium-dens gambling and murder. Threatened from within by communist workers and from without by Chinese warlords and Japanese troops and governed by an ever more desperate British-dominated administration Shanghai was both mesmerising and [...] this maelstrom stepped a tough and resourceful ex-veteran Englishman to join the police. It is his story told in part through his rediscovered photo-albums and letters that Robert Bickers has uncovered in this remarkable moving book.
Über den Autor
Robert Bickers
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780141011950
ISBN-10: 0141011955
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bickers, Robert
Hersteller: Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Robert Bickers
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.06.2004
Gewicht: 0,496 kg
Artikel-ID: 133969405