Cold warriors : writers who waged the literary cold war / Duncan White.
Publication details: London : Little, Brown, 2019.Description: 736 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781408707999
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 808.3 WHI | Issued | 25/11/2021 | 069962 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Spain -- 1.Orwell: Huesca & Barcelona, 1937 -- 2.Koestler: Malaga, 1937 -- 3.Spender: Cadiz, Valencia, Madrid & Albacete, 1937 -- 4.Orwell: Barcelona, 1937 -- 5.Koestler: Seville, 1937 -- 6.Spender, Orwell & Koestler: Madrid & London, 1937 -- pt. II Trials -- 7.Babel: Moscow, 1934 -- 8.McCarthy: New York City, 1936 -- 9.Babel: Moscow, 1939 -- pt. III War -- 10.Philby: Cordoba, Cambridge, Vienna & London, 1934--1942 -- 11.Greene: Freetown, St Albans & London, 1941--1944 -- 12.Hemingway: Rambouillet & Paris, 1944--1945 -- 13.Orwell & Koestler: London, 1944--1945 -- pt. IV Division -- 14.Orwell: Jura, 1948 -- 15.McCarthy: New York City, 1949 -- 16.Akhmatova: Leningrad, 1945--1953 -- 17.Koestler: Berlin, 1950 -- 18.Fast: New York, 1949--1957 -- 19.Spender & Philby: London, 1951--1953 -- pt. V Escalation -- 20.Greene: Malaya & Vietnam, 1950--1955 -- 21.Akhmatova, Fast & Solzhenitsyn: Leningrad, New York & Ekibastuz, 1952--1956 --
Contents note continued: 22.Wright: Paris, Accra & Bandung, 1952--1956 -- 23.Pasternak: Moscow, 1956--1960 -- pt. VI Crisis -- 24.Greene: Havana, 1957--1963 -- 25.Le Carre: Berlin, 1961 -- pt. VII Reckoning -- 26.Sinyavsky: Moscow, 1964 1966 -- 27.Spender: London, Paris & Prague, 1965 1968 -- 28.McCarthy: Paris, Saigon & Hanoi, 1965 1972 -- pt. VIII Unravelling -- 29.Solzhenitsyn: Moscow. Frankfurt & Washington, 1968 1974 -- 30.Belli: Nicaragua, 1975 1990 -- 31.Havel: Prague, 1976 1990 -- 32.Greene, Solzhenitsyn & Le Carre: Moscow, 1986 1991.
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.
