France 24 on MSN2d
Author Charlie English on the best-kept secret of the cold war
It's a book that tells the astonishing story of the books that were smuggled across the Iron curtain during and after the Second World War. Described by the Observer as a “gripping account of an ...
The secret (and unlikely) CIA operation that won the Cold War
Unable to fight, the USA turned to smuggling 10 million books across the Iron Curtain, as Charlie English’s The CIA Book Club ...
The Spectator Australia7d
A war of words: circulating forbidden literature behind the Iron Curtain
If James Bond, now in American hands, re-emerges refreshed as an agent of the CIA, then it will be a homecoming of sorts, ...
Time12d
Books: Iron Curtain Raisers
THE ENEMY (143 pp.)—Tibor Mercy —Criterion ($3). SIGH FOR A STRANGE LAND (188 pp.)—Monica Stirling—Atlantic—Little .Brown ($3.50). When the Chinese want to wish anyone harm, according to ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN11mon
How Museums in Central and Eastern Europe Tell the Complicated Story of Life Behind the Iron Curtain
Valuch, whose 2022 book Everyday Life Under Communism and After analyzes the transformation of people’s lifestyles and ...
BBC17d
Did Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech start the Cold War? – Cold War Britain in 1946
In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into being when, as a guest of President Truman in 1946, Winston Churchill ...