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The CIA book club : the best-kept secret of the Cold War
English, Charlie2025
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For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on Earth. The Iron Curtain. No physical combat would take place along this frontier: the risk of nuclear annihilation was too high for that. Instead, the conflict would be fought in the psychological sphere. It was a battle for hearts, minds and intellects. No one understood this more clearly than George Minden, the head of a covert intelligence operation known as the 'CIA books programme', which aimed to win the Cold War with literature. From its Manhattan headquarters, Minden's global CIA 'book club' would infiltrate millions of banned titles into the Eastern Bloc. Once inside the Soviet Bloc, each book would circulate secretly among dozens of like-minded readers, quietly turning them into dissidents.
Main title:
The CIA book club : the best-kept secret of the Cold War / Charlie English.
Author:
English, Charlie, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2025.
Collation:
xix, 361 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780008495121 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyCold War -- Secret service -- United StatesCold War -- Literature and the warEspionage, American -- Europe -- History -- 20th centuryBooks and reading -- Political aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th centuryCensorship -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th centuryUnited States -- Foreign relations -- Europe, EasternEurope, Eastern -- Foreign relations -- United StatesPolitics and Government
BRN:
4909641
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