Ebook {Epub PDF} Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White

Cold Warriors by Duncan White Duncan White is a lecturer in both history and literature at Harvard University and his new book, Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War, is a worthwhile read for anyone with these dual interests. It roughly covers the span from the Spanish Civil war to the fall of the Berlin War and the Soviet Union/5(37).  · In Cold Warriors, Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was waged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Among those involved were George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John le Carré, Anna Akhmatova, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Gioconda Belli, and Václav Brand: HarperCollins Publishers.  · Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White is published by Little, Brown (£25). To order a copy go to www.doorway.ru Free UK pp over £Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.

writers who waged the literary cold war by Duncan White ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 27, During the Cold War, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, writers were warriors, literature a weapon. Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White is popular history at its best. Historians or the average reader who stayed on top of the political situation for the past fifty years or so may be impatient with White's careful explanations (perestroika and glasnost defined, for example), but for those of us who were not paying attention at the time, this book sweeps us. Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White 'White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose will have you hooked all the way from Orwell to le Carre' Sunday Times, Books of the Year.

Cold warriors writers who waged the literary cold war. , By buza | Leave a reply. Cold Warriors Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War. by. During the Cold War, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, writers were warriors, literature a weapon. Daily Telegraph book reviewer White (History and Literature/Harvard Univ.; Nabokov and His Books, , etc.) returns with a massive, thoroughly researched history of the roles of writers and literature during the Cold War. His focus is not just on the United States and the Soviet Union; he also tells stories about Western Europe and Latin America (there is a chapter on Nicaragua, the Contras. In Cold Warriors, Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was waged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Among those involved were George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John le Carré, Anna Akhmatova, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Gioconda Belli, and Václav Havel.