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On the Edge of the Cold War - American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague (Hardcover)
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On the Edge of the Cold War - American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague (Hardcover)
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By 1945, both the US State Department and US Intelligence saw
Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe
and a chessboard for the power-game between East and West. In this
book, Igor Lukes illuminates the early stages of the Cold War in
postwar Prague. He paints a critical portrait of Ambassador
Laurence Steinhardt and shows that although Washington understood
that the outcome of the crisis in Prague might shape the political
trends elsewhere in Europe, it ignored signs that democracy in
Czechoslovakia was in trouble. A large section of the book deals
with US Intelligence in postwar Prague. The American intelligence
officials who served in Czechoslovakia from 1945 to 1948 were
committed to the mission of gathering information and protecting
democracy. Yet they were defeated by the Czech and Soviet
clandestine services that proved to be more shrewd and better
informed. Indeed, Lukes reveals that a key American officer may
have been turned by the Russians. Consequently, as the Communists
moved to impose their dictatorship, the American Embassy was
unprepared and helpless.
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