Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A New List of Books on the War
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
The American Library Annual 1911/12-1917/18
The Publishers Weekly
Hot Books in the Cold War
Author: Alfread A. Reisch
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155225230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
This study reveals the hidden story of the secret book distribution program to Eastern Europe financed by the CIA during the Cold War. At its height between 1957 and 1970, the book program was one of the least known but most effective methods of penetrating the Iron Curtain, reaching thousands of intellectuals and professionals in the Soviet Bloc. Reisch conducted thorough research on the key personalities involved in the book program, especially the two key figures: S. S. Walker, who initiated the idea of a ?mailing project,? and G. C. Minden, who developed it into one of the most effective political and psychological tools of the Cold War. The book includes excellent chapters on the vagaries of censorship and interception of books by communist authorities based on personal letters and accounts from recipients of Western material. It will stand as a testimony in honor of the handful of imaginative, determined, and hard-working individuals who helped to free half of Europe from mental bondage and planted many of the seeds that germinated when communism collapsed and the Soviet bloc disintegrated.
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155225230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
This study reveals the hidden story of the secret book distribution program to Eastern Europe financed by the CIA during the Cold War. At its height between 1957 and 1970, the book program was one of the least known but most effective methods of penetrating the Iron Curtain, reaching thousands of intellectuals and professionals in the Soviet Bloc. Reisch conducted thorough research on the key personalities involved in the book program, especially the two key figures: S. S. Walker, who initiated the idea of a ?mailing project,? and G. C. Minden, who developed it into one of the most effective political and psychological tools of the Cold War. The book includes excellent chapters on the vagaries of censorship and interception of books by communist authorities based on personal letters and accounts from recipients of Western material. It will stand as a testimony in honor of the handful of imaginative, determined, and hard-working individuals who helped to free half of Europe from mental bondage and planted many of the seeds that germinated when communism collapsed and the Soviet bloc disintegrated.
Literary Digest
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
The Educator-journal
The Bookseller
Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Subject-index
The New navy list, compiled by C. Haultain [and] (J. Allen)
Author: Joseph Allen (of Greenwich hosp)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description