The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War
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The books altered the course of history; the lives behind them have the dark fascination of fiction.The subject of The Anti-Communist Manifestos is four influential books that informed the great political struggle known as the Cold War: Darkness at Noon (1940), by Arthur Koestler, a Hungarian journalist and polymath intellectual; Out of the Night (1941), by Jan Valtin, a German sailor and labor agitator; I Chose Freedom (1946), by Victor Kravchenko, a Soviet engineer; and Witness (1952), by Whittaker Chambers, an American journalist. The authors were ex–Communist Party members whose bitter disillusionment led them to turn on t
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Release date: 17 August 2009
ISBN-10 : 0393069257 | ISBN-13: 9780393069259
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Release date: 17 August 2009
ISBN-10 : 0393069257 | ISBN-13: 9780393069259
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