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During his time in Romania, Dr. Latham was targeted as a spy by the brutal Communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu and subjected to constant, intrusive surveillance by his dreaded and dreadful secret police, the Securitate. This book is a collection of surveillance reports that Dr. Latham obtained from the Romanian archives following the collapse of the Communist regime. They reveal the extent of the surveillance to which Western diplomats were subjected and, more importantly, they reveal a great deal about the system and society that conducted it. Latham's introduction provides the context of his work and Romanian conditions at that time. This book is essential reading for students of the Cold War as well as anyone interested in the mindset and methods of totalitarian regimes. The esteemed professor of Romanian history and editor of this English edition, Dennis Deletant, has called it \"a notable event\" representing \"a rare case of such a file - of a foreigner.... Latham's role as the US cultural attaché between 1983 and 1987 marks him out in body as an outsider,\" but \"in spirit, an insider, sympathetic to the ambivalences and ambiguities of Romania's past.... His file reminds the reader of the intrusiveness of the Communist regime into the lives of citizens, be they Romanian or otherwise.\u0026amp;rdquo","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739793694993,"sku":"NGR9781592110636","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53646269088017,"sku":"NIN9781592110636","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":67652070539537,"sku":"NLS9781592110636","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1592110630.jpg?v=1789817021"},{"product_id":"the-maintenance-of-foreshores-rare-book-ernest-latham-1640080477tmb","title":"The Maintenance of Foreshores","description":"1914. No Edition Remarks. 84 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages are loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. 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This penetrating insight into the German administration of Europe reveals the reasons underlying the failure of the Nazi regime.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Originally published during the Second World War, this new edition of \u003ci\u003eAthene Palace\u003c\/i\u003e is enhanced by a thorough introductory study on the author's life and work by Ernest H. Latham, Jr., former cultural attaché at the American Embassy in Bucharest. 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The photographer, Laurence Salzmann, made the photographs in 1981 while on a fellowship in Poiana Sibiului, a small village of transhumance shepherds in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. Dr. Ernest Latham, who conceived of the exhibit as American cultural attaché in Bucharest in the 1980s, contributes an introduction which recounts his personal involvement with the Miori?a, the exhibit, and the new English translation developed to caption the photographs. Alexandru Husar was a distinguished professor of Romanian literature at the University of Ia?i. 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