and the Soviet Union, and battle strategies.Exciting reportorial derring-do." ―Kirkus Reviews "Beyond Higgins’ personal, gripping story, Hale coherently and accurately conveys the factors that led to the Korean War, the political gambling by the U.S. She appealed to General Douglas MacArthur, and he personally lifted the ban on female war correspondents, which allowed her the chance to report on many of the major events of the Korean War. The United States Army officially ordered her out of Korea. Then she was told that women didn’t belong on the frontlines. She risked her life in one dangerous situation after another––all for the sake of good story. Her eyewitness account of the invasion was a newspaper smash hit. She fled with the refugees heading south, but when the bridges were blown over the Han River, she was trapped in enemy territory. Marguerite was there when the Communists captured Seoul. When the North Korean army crossed the border with Soviet tanks, it was war. Tensions were high on the Korean peninsula, where a border drawn after WWII split the country into North and South. In 1950, Marguerite Higgins (1920–1966) was made bureau chief of the Far East Asia desk for the New York Herald Tribune. Discover the Korean War through the eyes of the journalist who covered it in this installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series
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On his passing, a distant relative offers what Sophia longs for most: a home. 1707 An ill-fated expedition for the New World left Sophia Paterson an orphan, cared for by her uncle. From the much-loved author of The Vanished Days, a novel of love, loyalty and ultimate betrayal. After a single camping trip, the bridge back to mere friendship has been well and truly burned. His solution? Keep things casual, see what happens. He can't risk falling in love with a man he can't live without. But for how long? With Robert embarking on a bright future-far from their rough-and-tumble East End streets-Liam may soon be left behind. His gorgeous best mate wants to kiss him and touch him and.everything with him. The only thing keeping him in the closet is.his gay best friend? Liam Carroll has a problem. At twenty-one, on the verge of a brilliant career in video games, he's finally ready to be his true self. As the only straight player on an all-LGBTQ soccer team, he's known to fans as "McWhatAWaste." No one would guess Robert's actually bisexual. I just want you." Robert McKenzie has a secret. I heard Gideon’s voice the moment I stepped into the hallway. When I was presentable, I left the bedroom. Since I had no hairstyling talent, I pulled my long blond hair back in a simple ponytail, then made up my face. Gideon woke up ready to conquer the world, and he liked to start that domination with me.īecause it was sliding into July in New York and the temperature was heating up, I chose a slim pair of pressed natural-linen slacks and a sleeveless poplin shell in a soft gray that matched my eyes. Obviously, I was going to have to allot time in my morning routine for sex, otherwise I’d always be scrambling. I had an hour and a half before I had to be at work, which was cutting it a little too close for comfort. My hair was still damp from a shower, and the towel wrapped around me was my only article of clothing. The pulsing energy of the city fueled international business bloodlines and drew people from all over the world.Īnd the embodiment of all that vibrancy, driving ambition, and world-renowned power had just screwed me to two toe-curlingly awesome orgasms.Īs I padded over to his massive walk-in closet, I glanced at Gideon Cross’s sex-rumpled bed and shivered with remembered pleasure. Oddities coexisted with priceless rarities. Conservatives rubbed shoulders with bohemians. The city was a microcosm of new world opportunities and old world traditions. I loved New York with the kind of mad passion I reserved for only one other thing in my life. The beautiful Kelmscott Press edition, like the narrative itself, embodies Morris's belief that art and beauty should be accessible to all. Part utopia and part romance, News from Nowhere is William Morris's depiction of an ideal nation peopled with 'happy and lovely folk, who had cast away riches and attained to wealth.' In its appreciation that industrial capitalism has alienated us from the world we actually inhabit, News from Nowhere is as relevant today as when it was first published. The story centers on William Guest as he. The bewildered but enchanted Guest embarks on a journey across London and up the Thames to Kelmscott Manor, during which he learns that England, now called 'Nowhere', has become a decentralized and humane socialist society following a revolutionary upheaval. News from Nowhere is a classic science fiction work that was written by William Morris and published in 1890. Industrial buildings have been transformed into a pastoral paradise civilians are dressed in fourteenth-century costume there is an abundance of open-air markets and wooded areas and gardens and money, prisons and divorce have been abolished. After attending a Socialist League meeting and returning home to the London suburb of Hammersmith, narrator William Guest awakens the next day to find himself in the twenty-first century. The Kelmscott Press edition, printed in 1892 and reproduced in this facsimile edition, was a triumph of book design and making. News from Nowhere caused a stir with its unusual blend of utopian socialism and science fiction when it was first published in instalments in William Morris's socialist newspaper The Commonweal in 1890. |