Our Man in Trieste

by Michael Pearce

Book Overview

Trieste in the 1900s is one of the greatest seaports in the world, the Austrian Empire's main outlet to the Mediterranean.But various nationalist movements are threatening to pull the place apart. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841196673
• ISBN13: 9781841196671
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Constable & Robinson Limited
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Terrific mystery about an city unknown to many in days leading up to WWI

This book provides a fascinating view of Trieste and some of it's inhabitants in a time leading up to WW1. As with Pearce's series set in Egypt in the same time frame, it helps to know background and the way the British government operated at the beginning of the 20th century. Pearce has a very dry sense of humor which some people may find off putting but how else to highlight the difference between the British Establishment's haughty world views when living and working among the inhabitants of a differnt world?