Arrow in the Blue

<p>The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of <i>Darkness at Noon</i>.<br><br>In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny. Before that point, he lived a tumultuous and varied existence. He was a member of the duelling fraternity at the University of Vienna; a collective farm worker in Galilee; a tramp and street vendor in Haifa; the editor of a weekly paper in Cairo; the foreign correspondent of the biggest continental newspaper chain in Paris and the Middle East; a science editor in Berlin; and a member of the North Pole expedition of the Graf Zeppelin. <br><br>Written with enormous zest, <i>joie de vivre</i> and frankness, <i>Arrow in the Blue</i> is a fascinating self-portrait of a remarkable young man at the heart of the events that shaped the twentieth century. <br><br>The second volume of Arthur Koestler''s autobiography is<i> The Invisible Writing.</i