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0-7434-3167-7. Followed by. A Murder of Quality. Call for the Dead is John le Carré 's first novel, published in 1961. It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in a story about East German spies inside Great Britain. [ 1] It also introduces a fictional version of British Intelligence, called "the Circus ...
A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
A best-selling author, Heyer's writing career saw her produce works from a variety of genres; in total she published 32 novels in the romance genre, 6 historical novels, 4 contemporary novels, and 12 in the detective fiction genre. [ 1][ 2] Born in Wimbledon, London, the nineteen-year-old Heyer published her first novel, The Black Moth, in 1921 ...
Hans-Dieter Mundt, a former low level Stasi officer who murdered Samuel Fennan a few years prior, has risen to power in the counterintelligence section and systematically eradicates the network. Leamas attempts to save Karl Riemeck, his final undercover source and member of the praesidium of the Socialist Unity Party , but fails, witnessing his ...
Gammie is the mother of Grandpa, Arthur, Reba, and Loretta Heffley. Gammie is briefly mentioned by Greg in Cabin Fever when he says she gave a miniature carousel that held spoons from all over the world to Greg's family five or six years before. Gammie returns in The Deep End and has a much smaller role.
Max Herz (1905–1965), co-founder of Tchibo. Ernst Heinkel (1888–1958), founder of Heinkel, manufacturer of airplanes. Richard Hellmann (1876–1971), founder of Hellmann's Mayonnaise. Friedrich Karl Henkel (1848–1930), founder of Henkel. J.A. Henckels, manufacturers of kitchen knives, scissors, cookware and flatware.
Heinz Guderian. Heinz Wilhelm Guderian ( German: [haɪnts ˈvɪlhɛlm ɡuˈdeːʁi.an]; 17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954) was a German general during World War II who, after the war, became a successful memoirist. An early pioneer and advocate of the "blitzkrieg" approach, he played a central role in the development of the panzer division concept.
George Ronald Rougier. . . ( m. 1925) . Georgette Heyer ( / ˈheɪ.ər /; 16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth.