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Garret Graff’s “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” and Iain MacGregor’s “The Hiroshima Men.” ...
Some of the same titles and authors the C.I.A. sent east during the Cold War, including “1984,” are now deemed objectionable ...
While it is hard to quantify the program’s effect in absolute terms, its history offers valuable lessons for today, not least ...
Journalist and author Phil Tinline explores how a fake 1960s document convinced millions – and reveals what it says about ...
We’ve grown used to blood-curdling nuclear threats from Russia’s leadership – but this time, Donald Trump has very publicly ...
He identified as a “citizen diplomat” and preached mutual respect because, he explained, “everybody is a somebody.” ...
Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...
Charlie English provides a fascinating account of how the agency smuggled Camus, Orwell and Vonnegut behind the Iron Curtain ...
After six decades of roaring through India's skies, the MiG-21 will soon take its final flight — not in defeat, but in glory.
When you attend “Letters from a Soviet Prison,” you will step into a gripping real-life story of Cold War espionage.
Step up to the plate with these must-read baseball books celebrating America’s favorite pastime recommended by the Naperville Public Library.
Writer, actress and theater director, the now 60-something Emine Sevgi Özdamar arrived in Germany from Turkey as a young ...