Joseph Finder, who writes frequently about Russia, is the author of 17 novels including, most recently, “The Oligarch’s ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...

In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story of how the CIA smuggled books behind the Iron Curtain ...

A secret American programme put 10m Western books and magazines in the hands of intellectuals and professionals in Eastern ...

The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War. By Charlie English. William Collins; 384 pages; £25. To be published in America by Random House in July; $35 Books were smuggled on boats ...

This almost-conflict became known as the Cold War - a doom-laden time humanity would like to forget. But with Iran's nuclear ...

A survey of more than 500 political scientists found that they believe the United States is headed towards authoritarian rule ...

The Soviet-era T-80 main battle tank, envisioned as a high-speed spearhead for a Cold War conflict in Europe, has suffered ...

Western allies have sought post-war German rearmament before. While German defence spending has been miserly for decades, it ...

Africa 39;s national liberation movements gained a fresh boost in the wake of World War II, and by the early 1960s, 17 ...

Amena Namjoyan arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos as part of a migration crisis that would rock the European Union. She ...

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corp, which Israel has been battering with increasing intensity, were inevitably a prime target as ...