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Champagne and Meatballs Adventures of a Canadian Communist

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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.

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348 pages

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Canada : AU Press., 2011

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English

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9781926836089.01

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348 pages

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Memoir

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Bert Whyte,Larry Hannant

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Arin

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