Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist by Bert WhyteISBN: 9781926836096
Publication Date: 2011-02-01
Champagne and Meatballs is a memoir written by Bert Whyte, who was active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada. In this book 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.