Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Eur..., Alison Lewis
Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Eur..., Alison Lewis
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Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe

Author: Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar, Corina L. Petrescu

Narrator: James Anderson Foster, Christa Lewis

Unabridged: 12 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/01/2019


Synopsis

During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously, in the post–Cold War period there are no signs of this enthusiasm diminishing.

The opening of secret police archives in many Eastern European countries has provided the opportunity to excavate and narrate forgotten spy stories for the first time. Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe brings together a wide range of accounts compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files. The stories are a complex amalgam of fact and fiction, history and imagination, past and present. These stories of collusion and complicity, betrayal and treason, right and wrong, and good and evil cast surprising new light on the question of Cold War certainties and divides.

About Alison Lewis

Alison Lewis is a professor of German at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of several books, including one in German about love and gender in literature during Germany's reunification and a book in German about the Stasi's infiltration of the literary underground.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sami

The angle of the piece is interesting: cold war spy narratives through file cases, an autobiography (Marcus Wolff) and fictional works. I found the passage about the STASI's secret literature critic most entertaining. Sometimes it seems, the writers don't really know the others are writing of. Outside......more

Goodreads review by Antonio

Takes you to the past... nice facts telling but a bit boring at times.........more