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Using hitherto classified security files and new archival research White explores the ways in which authors were harnessed by both East and West to impose maximum damage on the opposition; how writers played a pivotal role (sometimes consciously, often not) in the conflict; and how literature became something that was worth fighting and dying for.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With a cast that includes George Orwell, Arthur Koestler, Graham Greene, Boris Pasternak, Andrei Sinyavsky, Mary McCarthy and John le Carre, and taking the reader from Spain to America to England and to Russia, this is narrative history at its most enthralling and most pertinent - pertinent because even if on the face of it there is a huge difference between 140 characters and 100,000 words, at the heart of both is the power of stories to change the fate of nations.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47917119373470,"sku":"ING-9780349141992","price":74.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349141992.jpg?v=1782786110"},{"product_id":"9780385527194","title":"Gertruda's Oath","description":"Author: Oren, Ram\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780385527194\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE US\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Aug 2014\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow in paperback, an inspiring true story of one woman's undying devotion and one boy's heartwrenching journey to safety in one of history's darkest nightmares. 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