Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders & engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid's chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists & writers. It is here that six people meet & find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material & a new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious young journalist hungry for love & experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa & Gerda Taro, idealistic & ground-breaking young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making & are inventing moder photojournalism in the process. & Arturo Barea, chief of the Republican government's foreign press office, & Ilsa Kulcsar, his Austrian deputy, are struggling to balance truth-telling with their loyalty to their sometimes-compromised cause
- a struggle that places both of their lives at risk. Hotel Florida traces the tangled wartime destinies of these three couples
- & a host of supporting characters from Antoine de Saint-Exupery to John Dos Passos
- living as intensely as they had ever done, against the backdrop of a critical moment in history. Amanda Vaill has mined teh raw material of unpublished letters, diaries, & reels of film
- including Martha Gellhorn's personal papers, which shed new light on her & Hemingway's activities during the war, & Capa & Taro's recently rediscovered ' Mexican Suitcase' negatives, which permit an unprecedented frame-by-frame close-up of their experiences. The result is a narrative of love & reinvention that is, finally, a story about truth, finding it, telling it
- & living it, whatever the cost.




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Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders & engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid`s chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists & writers. It is here that six people meet & find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material & a new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious young journalist hungry for love & experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa & Gerda Taro, idealistic & ground-breaking young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making & are inventing moder photojournalism in the process. & Arturo Barea, chief of the Republican government`s foreign press office, & Ilsa Kulcsar, his Austrian deputy, are struggling to balance truth-telling with their loyalty to their sometimes-compromised cause
- a struggle that places both of their lives at risk. Hotel Florida traces the tangled wartime destinies of these three couples
- & a host of supporting characters
- living as intensely as they had ever done, against the backdrop of a critical moment in history. It is a narrative of love & reinvention that is, finally, a story about truth, finding it, telling it
- & living it, whatever the cost.



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All the establishments featured have been officially inspected & rated for quality by the AA`s professional inspectors, each graded with 1 to 5 Stars, with AA Red Stars highlighting Inspectors` Choice Hotels. There are more establishments offering more choice than competing guides & over 500 budget hotels are featured, ideal for overnight stops. Plus, up-to-date details of room prices, credit cards, parking, directions & leisure facilities throughout. Central reservation telephone numbers are featured for the major hotel groups. ...

Having celebrated 50 years as Britain`s most complete guide to where to stay, the AA Hotel Guide continues to showcase hotels from across the UK & Ireland with over 2, 600 hotels, including over 700 budget hotels. From the most opulent & sophisticated of London`s elite hotels to personally run small hotels in the British countryside & from the practical & convenient budget hotel aimed at business or air travellers, to the luxurious country house hotel catering for leisure & sporting guests, the AA Hotel Guide is your best resource to find places to stay. All year round the AA`s expert inspectors are visiting & grading the hotels that appear in this guide. Each one is judged on presentation, quality of accommodation, leisure & sporting facilities, food operation, service, hospitality, conference facilities & cleanliness. They are then rated for quality with the very best achieving the coveted red stars. ...

In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute & a middle-aged man from his room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man's voice, in what will become the first gesture of a long seduction. The mysterious man lives quietly as a translator on an island off the coast. A widower, there are murmurs around town that he may have murdered his wife. Mari begins to visit him, but as he initiates her into a dark realm of both pain & pleasure, she finds herself also attracted to his earnest young nephew. As Mari's mother & the police begin to close in on the illicit affair, events move to a dramatic climax. ...

Few foreigners have been lucky enough to set foot on Tibetan soil
- Alec Le Sueur spent five extraordinary years there, working
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After the end of the First World War, Gabriel Dan is released from a POW camp in Russia & begins making his way home to Austria. He comes to an industrial town in Pol&, & checks in the ramshackle Hotel Savoy while awaiting financial aid from his family. Here he meets a kaleidoscope of characters, a microcosm of society in which rich & poor, itinerants, dissidents & malcontents live lives of hope, expectancy & despair in an atmosphere pregnant with revolutionary fervour. ...

For Magnus Chase: Hotel Valhalla Guide to the Norse Worlds will whet readers` appetites for The Hammer of Thor. It is a 176-page, smaller format book with black-&-white illustrations throughout. Helgi
- the hotel manager
- created this book for each hotel guest, so that he wouldn`t have to answer so many questions at the front desk. It has short entries about the deities, mythical beings, & fantastic creatures from the nine Norse worlds, & also contains bonus material, including interviews, newspaper articles, short stories & more. The tone is humorous, complementing Rick`s series.

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Reginald Edward Morse is a man in need of an outlet. & he finds it in a very twenty-first century place: the internet. Specifically, Rate Your Lodging.com, where Americans go to find out the truth about hotels, motels &, horrors, bed & breakfasts. But the real joy of those sites is not so much the advice they offer, but the people who offer it. Reginald Edward Morse is one of those people. At first Morse seems exactly what you`d suspect a reviewer to be, though under the authoritative, even puffed-up tone, there lurks self-awareness, wit & a flair for anecdote. His reviews scatter clues to his identity, & the fragments explain the mystery of Reginald Edward Morse, his career as a motivational speaker, his lover `K` & his estrangement from his daughter. Always funny, unexpectedly tragic, this is a book of lonely rooms, long lists, of strong opinion & quiet confession, by one of America`s greatest novelists. ...

Reginald Edward Morse is a man in need of an outlet. & he finds it in a very twenty-first century place: the internet. Specifically, Rate Your Lodging.com, where Americans go to find out the truth about hotels, motels &, horrors, bed & breakfasts. But the real joy of those sites is not so much the advice they offer, but the people who offer it. Reginald Edward Morse is one of those people. At first Morse seems exactly what you`d suspect a reviewer to be, though under the authoritative, even puffed-up tone, there lurks self-awareness, wit & a flair for anecdote. His reviews scatter clues to his identity, & the fragments explain the mystery of Reginald Edward Morse, his career as a motivational speaker, his lover `K` & his estrangement from his daughter. Always funny, unexpectedly tragic, this is a book of lonely rooms, long lists, of strong opinion & quiet confession, by one of America`s greatest novelists. ...