04435cam a2200685 4500 2435208818 TxAuBib 20250706120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593447918 0593447913 B0DQH6PG83 Amazon 6c5c079b-2206-4ae1-91f7-eb8821731e32 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11426108 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib English, Charlie. The CIA Book Club [Libby (Advantage) eBook] : The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature. Random House Publishing Group, 2025. The CIA book club Charlie English. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. gifts for history lovers. gifts for history buffs. American history books. history teacher gifts. history buff gifts. CIA books program. the CIA book club. European History. american history. cold war history. russian history. espionage books. Charlie English. cold war books. World History. history books. history gifts. Iron Curtain. Soviet Union. Banned Books. us history. Censorship. literature. espionage. Cold war. American. History. Poland. spies. CIA. HTML:<b>“An intriguing and little-known Cold War moment” (<i>The Observer</i>): the astonishing true story of the CIA’s secret program to smuggle millions of books through the Iron Curtain</b><br /> <b>“English’s true tale of the federal government smuggling subversive books through the Iron Curtain sounds like a current-times call to action. . . . The book’s allure is intrigue, danger, and suspense in the service of meaning.”—NPR</b><br /> For nearly five decades after the Second World War, the Iron Curtain divided Europe, forming the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. No physical combat would take place along this frontier: the risk of nuclear annihilation was too high for that. Instead, the war was fought psychologically. It was a battle for hearts, minds, and intellects. Few understood this more clearly than George Minden, head of a covert intelligence operation known as the “CIA book program,” which aimed to undermine Soviet censorship and inspire revolt by offering different visions of thought and culture.<br /> From its Manhattan headquarters, Minden’s “book club” secretly sent ten million banned titles into the East. Volumes were smuggled aboard trucks and yachts, dropped from balloons, hidden aboard trains, and stowed in travelers’ luggage. Nowhere were the books welcomed more warmly than in Poland, where they would circulate covertly among circles of like-minded readers, quietly making the case against Soviet communism. Such was the demand for Minden’s texts that dissidents began to reproduce them in the underground. By the late 1980s, illicit literature was so pervasive in Poland that censorship broke down: the Iron Curtain soon followed.<br /> Charlie English narrates this tale of Cold War spycraft, smuggling, and secret printing operations for the first time, highlighting the work of a handful of extraordinary people who fought for intellectual freedom—people like Mirosław Chojecki, who suffered beatings, imprisonment, and exile in pursuit of his clandestine mission. <i>The CIA Book Club</i> is a story about the power of the printed word as a means of resistance and liberation. Books, it shows, can set you free. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-07-05 20:00:03. Advantage title. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6c5c079b-2206-4ae1-91f7-eb8821731e32&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6c5c079b-2206-4ae1-91f7-eb8821731e32&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BTCLS