Charlie English

The CIA Book Club

The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War

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Produktbeschreibung

'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' OBSERVER 'Reads like a thriller' THE SUN The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 160mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780008495121
• ISBN-10: 0008495122
• Artikelnr.: 68272475

Autorenporträt

Charlie English

Rezensionen

'Vibrant, beautifully researched and exciting... a real pleasure to read - a finely written page-turner full of well-researched stories of smuggling, intrigue and survival'

Guardian

'This covert CIA programme to undermine censorship in the Soviet bloc is the subject of Charlie English's impressively detailed account... English does a first-rate job in piecing together this patchily known story in efficient, pacy prose'

Spectator

'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment'

Observer

'Gripping...an extraordinarily detailed account of how the [CIA] Book Club set about capturing hearts and minds'

Daily Mail

'Reads like a thriller'

The Sun

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK SMUGGLERS OF TIMBUKTU

'An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel'

William Dalrymple, Observer, Books of the Year

'This spellbinding record of Timbuktu's intellectual heritage blends accounts of European explorers to the ancient city with contemporary reportage'

New Yorker

'A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity [written with] exceptional delicacy and restraint'

TLS

'Part reportage, part history, part romance and wholly gripping a riveting read'

Sunday Times