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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 ...
On April 18, 2014, 16 Sherpas were killed in an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall. [ 11][ 12][ 13] On April 25, 2015, 19 people—the most ever in a single day on Everest—were killed in an avalanche at base camp after a 7.8 earthquake, which killed more than 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000 in Nepal. [ 14][ 15][ 16] During the 2023 ...
The Looking-Glass War. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British agent, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. It serves as a sequel to le Carré's previous novels Call for ...
A Legacy of Spies is both a prequel and sequel to John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold.In that book, MI6 agent Alec Leamas, motivated by the death of his operative Karl Riemeck in East Berlin, agrees to undertake one final mission to get revenge on the man he believes to be Riemeck's murderer, a high-ranking member of the Stasi named Hans-Dieter Mundt.
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.
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.
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.