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Jean-Paul Sartre
June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. This book tells what men thought and felt and did…
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It is September 1938 and during a heatwave, Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris…
Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, trying to raise 4,000 francs to…
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David Caute
DOUBLES brings to light a buried historical event involving Pablo Picasso and Charles Chaplin. In turmoil as Stalin’s death approaches, the Kremlin seeks a propaganda victory. The invitation to Picasso…
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David Cautes wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history
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A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century.
With the onset of the Cold War, cultural competition flared up between Moscow and the West. Using sources in four languages, this book explores the cultural Cold War as it…
With the onset of the Cold War, cultural competition flared up between Moscow and the West. It rapidly penetrated theatre, film, music, ballet, painting, and sculpture. Artists such as Miller…
This highly regarded book gives a lucid and balanced account of fellow travellers in Europe and America: those individuals who were not willing to become Communists but were attracted by…
Two high-voltage scholars engage in a bitter conflict in this irresistible tale of principle and politics in the Cold War years
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Looks at the influence of intellectuals who, although attracted to Communism, did not join the Communist Party and discusses the development of Communist regimes in China, Cuba, and North Vietnam.
Maurice L.Perlzweig
In 15 autobiographical interviews given to the Columbia Oral History Project this important figure discusses his life and times, Zionism, and the many famous people he met and influenced including…
