{"product_id":"cold-warriors-book-duncan-white-9780062449818","title":"Cold Warriors","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cbr\u003e this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and\u003cbr\u003e poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and\u003cbr\u003e conspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union\u003cbr\u003e and the West\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuring the Cold War, literature was\u003cbr\u003e both sword and noose. Novels, essays, and poems could win the hearts and minds\u003cbr\u003e of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They\u003cbr\u003e could also lead to blacklisting, exile, imprisonment, or execution for their\u003cbr\u003e authors if they offended those in power. The clandestine intelligence services\u003cbr\u003e of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union recruited secret agents and\u003cbr\u003e established vast propaganda networks devoted to literary warfare. But the\u003cbr\u003e battles were personal, too: friends turned on one another, lovers were split by\u003cbr\u003e political fissures, artists were undermined by inadvertent complicities. And\u003cbr\u003e while literary battles were fought in print, sometimes the pen was exchanged\u003cbr\u003e for a gun, the bookstore for the battlefield.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn\u003cbr\u003e Cold Warriors, Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was\u003cbr\u003e waged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Among those involved were George\u003cbr\u003e Orwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,\u003cbr\u003e John le Carré, Anna Akhmatova, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris\u003cbr\u003e Pasternak, Gioconda Belli, and Václav Havel. Here, too, are the spies,\u003cbr\u003e government officials, military officers, publishers, politicians, and critics\u003cbr\u003e who helped turn words into weapons at a time when the stakes could not have\u003cbr\u003e been higher.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing\u003cbr\u003e upon years of archival research and the latest declassified intelligence, Cold Warriors is both a gripping saga of prose and\u003cbr\u003e politics, and a welcome reminder that--at a moment when ignorance is all too\u003cbr\u003e frequently celebrated and reading is seen as increasingly irrelevant--writers\u003cbr\u003e and books can change the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50480090579217,"sku":"CIN0062449818G","price":5.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50558783750417,"sku":"CIN0062449818VG","price":5.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52046124122385,"sku":"CIN0062449818A","price":5.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062449818.jpg?v=1751355325","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/cold-warriors-book-duncan-white-9780062449818","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}