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Cold Warriors - Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War (Hardcover)
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Cold Warriors - Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War (Hardcover)
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'White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining
multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His
energetic, anecdote-laden prose will have you hooked all the way
from Orwell to le Carre' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 'Cold
Warriors reads like a thriller . . . ambitious, intelligent,
searching history' The Times In this age of 24-hour news coverage,
where rallying cries are made on Twitter and wars are waged in
cyberspace as much as on the ground, the idea of a novel as a
weapon that can wield any power feels almost preposterous. The Cold
War was a time when destruction was merely the press of a button
away, but when the real battle between East and West was over the
minds and hearts of their people. In this arena the pen really was
mightier than the sword. This is a gripping, richly-populated
history of spies and journalists, protest and propaganda, idealism
and betrayal. And it is the story of how literature changed the
course of the Cold War just as much as how Cold War would change
the course of literature. Using hitherto classified security files
and new archival research White explores the ways in which authors
were harnessed by both East and West to impose maximum damage on
the opposition; how writers played a pivotal role (sometimes
consciously, often not) in the conflict; and how literature became
something that was worth fighting and dying for. With a cast that
includes George Orwell, Arthur Koestler, Graham Greene, Boris
Pasternak, Andrei Sinyavsky, Mary McCarthy and John le Carre, and
taking the reader from Spain to America to England and to Russia,
this is narrative history at its most enthralling and most
pertinent - pertinent because even if on the face of it there is a
huge difference between 140 characters and 100,000 words, at the
heart of both is the power of stories to change the fate of
nations.
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