The Cia Book Club: Best-Kept Secret Of Cold War Charlie English William Collins Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

The Astonishing Story Of Ten Million Books That Were Smuggled Across Iron Curtain During Cold War For Almost Five Decades After Second World Europe Was Divided By Longest And Most Heavily Guarded Border On Earth A Near-Impenetrable Barrier Wire Wall Tank Traps Minefields Watchtowers Men With Dogs Stretched 4 300 Miles From Arctic To Black Sea No Physical Combat Would Take Place Along This Frontier: Risk Nuclear Annihilation Too High Instead Conflict Be Fought In Psychological Sphere It Battle Hearts Minds Intellects One Understood More Clearly Than George Minden Head Covert Intelligence Operation Known As ‘Cia Programme’ Which Aimed Win Literature Its Manhattan Headquarters Minden’s Global Cia ‘Book Club’ Infiltrate Millions Banned Titles Into Eastern Bloc Written Vast Eclectic List Authors Including Hannah Arendt Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Orwell Agatha Christie Volumes Trucks Aboard Yachts Dropped Balloons Hidden Luggage Hundreds Thousands Individual Travellers Once Inside Soviet Each Book Circulate Secretly Among Dozens Like-Minded Readers Quietly Turning Them Dissidents Latterly Underground Print Shops Began Reproduce Late 1980S Illicit Poland So Pervasive System Communist Censorship Broke Down Soon Followed Charlie English Tells True Spycraft Smuggling Secret Printing Operations First Time Highlighting Work Handful Extraordinary People Who Risked Their Lives Stand Up Intellectual Strait-Jacket Stalin Created Like Miroslaw Chojecki An Polish Publisher Endured Beatings Force-Feeding Exile Service Mission Cia’s Mastermind Didn’t Waver His Belief Truth Culture Diversity Thought Could Help Free ‘Captive Nations’ Is About Power Printed Word Means Resistance Liberation Shows Can Set You Σελίδες: 384 Διαστάσεις: 15 3X15 3Cm