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Author: Valentina Glajar Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1640121986 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 467
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During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously, in the post-Cold War period there are no signs of this enthusiasm diminishing. The opening of secret police archives in many Eastern European countries has provided the opportunity to excavate and narrate for the first time forgotten spy stories. Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe brings together a wide range of accounts compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files. The stories are a complex amalgam of fact and fiction, history and imagination, past and present. These stories of collusion and complicity, betrayal and treason, right and wrong, and good and evil cast surprising new light on the question of Cold War certainties and divides.
Author: Valentina Glajar Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1640121986 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 467
Book Description
During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously, in the post-Cold War period there are no signs of this enthusiasm diminishing. The opening of secret police archives in many Eastern European countries has provided the opportunity to excavate and narrate for the first time forgotten spy stories. Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe brings together a wide range of accounts compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files. The stories are a complex amalgam of fact and fiction, history and imagination, past and present. These stories of collusion and complicity, betrayal and treason, right and wrong, and good and evil cast surprising new light on the question of Cold War certainties and divides.
Author: Peter Cipkowski Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 202
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Analyzes the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, country by country, during 1989 and 1990. Includes photographs, time lines, maps, and cartoons.
Author: Peter Elfed Lewis Publisher: Burns & Oates ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 224
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"Eric Ambler is widely regarded as one of the most important thriller writers of the twentieth century. In the 1930s he set out to give respectability to a genre that he rightly recognized to be in desperate need from its status as pulp fiction. With six novels published between 1936 and 1940, Ambler laid the foundations for the postwar generation of writers who have raised the spy novel to a form of literature. Like Graham Greene, Ambler has used thriller ingredients to create a series of novels that investigates many aspects of modern life, from totalitarian political regimes to white-collar crime." "This book by Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning author Peter Lewis is the first full-length study of Amber's life and work. In it, we get to the heart of the grand master of intrigue through insightful discussions of such popular novels as Epitaph for a Spy, A Coffin for Dimitrios, The Light of Day (on which the well-known film Topkapi is based), and The Siege of the Villa Lipp among many others." "Through a book-by-book explication of Amber's major themes and methods we come to see how his work has changed while remaining always topical. As this book cogently argues, no novelist has done more to dissolve the boundaries that have separated "popular" from "serious" fiction."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: New York Times Publisher: ISBN: 9781578660667 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 468
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Departing from the annual Page One book of The New York Times front pages, Great Stories of the Century completely covers the top world-changing events of 1900 through 1999, presenting the full story, which incorporates the newspaper's headline news, other related articles, and period advertisements that reflect the pulse of American life through one hundred years of change. From the end of the Victorian age, through physical accomplishments, life-changing inventions, two horrendous world wars, the turmoil of communism, the computer age, and Clinton -- the century lives and breathes in the pages of The New York Times.
Author: Benedict Le Vay Publisher: ISBN: 9781841620411 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 396
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A guide to the eccentric people, places and events of London for travelers looking for a different kind of guide to touring the greatest city in the world.
Author: R. G. Grant Publisher: Raintree ISBN: 9780817250171 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 68
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Discusses the history of the Berlin Wall from its building, through life with tensions this barrier created, to the destruction of the wall and life afterwards.
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