The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the Cia, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Petra Couvée, Peter Finn

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the Cia, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book

Petra Couvée, Peter Finn

384 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced

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The Zhivago Affair is the dramatic, never-before-told story--drawing on newly declassified files--of how a forbidden book became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout went to ...

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