'This was the age of the new man', the author writes, 'And John Hawkwood was the most audacious of them all. His scheme, quite simply, was to hold Europe's richest country to ransom, and he turned the business of war into an exorbitant art.[...]
In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders presents for the first time the shocking evidence that the CIA infiltrated every niche of the cultural sphere during the postwar years. In a book that draws together recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews, the author narrates the ex[...]
In the West during the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherised possession. This text documents a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom were instruments - whether they knew it or not - of America's secret service.[...]