Description - A Huckster: 50 Years on the Roads of Europe and Elsewhere by Arthur Woods
This is a memoir of one man's work, covering over 50 years (1950-2000) in 16 countries of East and West Europe, plus the USA and the Middle East; including the critical periods of the Cold War behind the Iron Curtain, in East Germany, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and in particular, Czechoslovakia. More than 50,000 miles by car and 20,000 by air were covered each year in one 10-year period, and about one and three-quarter million miles overall. Various characters are recognizable to those of good memory. Greville Wynn, a drinking partner and British spy in Budapest, whom the KGB collared on November 2nd 1962 and locked up in the Moscow Lubianka prison next day. Later he was exchanged for the Russian spy Gordon Londsdale doing 20 years in London. Wynn had a hard time and his control, Colonel Penkovsky, was shot. In July 1961 the author met Sidney Stanley in the bar of the Dan Hotel, Tel Aviv. He was the Polish businessman who, in 1948, nearly brought down the Attlee government on corruption grounds. Several labour ministers had a hard time under questioning by the Lynskey Tribunal. Life as lived in the UK in the 40`s,50`s,60`s are revealing.The chapters on the USA are hilarious,and in Czechoslovakia sad.
It is a book equally about work,travel,history and politics
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