Ilia Zhulati

Lifting the Iron Curtain (eBook, ePUB)

The Untold Story of the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations Between Albania and the United States

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What if one conversation could change the fate of two nations?

In 1983, a young Albanian diplomat walked into the halls of the United Nations carrying a secret that could shatter his world-or transform it forever. This is the true story of how that secret helped end nearly half a century of diplomatic silence between Albania and the United States.

"Without Mr. Zhulati's efforts, the process of establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries would have been immeasurably slowed down."

- Professor Charles Moskos, Northwestern University

Dr. Ilia Zhulati should have been the perfect communist diplomat. Born in a remote Albanian village, raised under Enver Hoxha's iron rule, educated to serve the Party without question. But when he arrived at the UN in 1983, something unexpected happened: he began to see the world as it really was.

What followed was a diplomatic thriller stranger than fiction.

While his handlers in Tirana monitored his every move, Zhulati began a delicate dance of deception spanning four years and three continents. Secret meetings in Vienna coffee houses. Coded messages through intermediaries. A dangerous partnership with Professor Moskos that could have cost both men everything.

This wasn't just diplomacy-it was survival.

Every conversation was monitored. Every relationship scrutinized. One wrong word could mean imprisonment, exile, or worse. Yet Zhulati pressed on, driven by conviction that his homeland deserved better.

What readers discover:

• The human cost of totalitarian rule-families torn apart, intellectuals silenced
• The real story behind diplomatic breakthroughs-how change happens through quiet courage
• An insider's view of the UN during the Cold War's final decade
• Albania's emergence from isolation

"Lifting the Iron Curtain" reads like a le Carré novel, but every word is true. From mountain villages to UN halls, from secret Paris meetings to Bush's 1991 announcement, this is how one man changed history.

Perfect for readers who loved: The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy in the Archives, Bridge of Spies, and le Carré thrillers.

The Iron Curtain has fallen. The Berlin Wall is dust. But the story of how it ended-one conversation at a time-has never been told like this.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fjala Është Art
• Seitenzahl: 307
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798218721701
• Artikelnr.: 74739021