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Trapped in the Cold War

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Release : 2002
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Trapped in the Cold War by : Hermann H. Field

Download or read book Trapped in the Cold War written by Hermann H. Field. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disappearance behind the Iron Curtain of the American brothers Noel and Hermann Field in 1949, followed by that of Noel’s wife and their foster daughter, was one of the most publicized international mysteries of the Cold War. This dual memoir gives an intensely human dimension to that struggle, with Hermann narrating all that happened to him from the day he was abducted from the Warsaw airport to his release five years later, and Kate relating her unrelenting efforts to find her husband. Thousands of potential victims of Hitler’s dragnet were rescued in 1939 and during World War II through separate efforts of the Field brothers. Arrested in Czechoslovakia in 1949, Noel was taken to Hungary and used as an example of American perfidy in show trials. Hermann went to Poland primarily to find out what had happened to his brother. After Hermann’s abduction, he was taken to the cellar of a secret Polish prison, where he was held for five years. He gives us a detailed account of his battle to survive, alternating despair and horror with mordant humor. Meanwhile, his family had no idea whether he was still alive and if so, where. This moving story, based on detailed notes made by the authors during and shortly after the events described, presents an inside-outside counterpoint, as Hermann’s chapters on his inward journey in his cellar world alternate with Kate’s efforts in London to find him by scrutinizing accounts of political events in Eastern Europe for clues and penetrating the diplomatic corridors of power in the West for help. Hermann had been arrested by a Polish security agent who later defected and became one of the West’s most important informants on Soviet operations in Eastern Europe. The search for the Field brothers was complicated by their history of leftist connections, for this tense period in the Cold War was also the era of McCarthyism in the United States. The book ends with an Epilogue that analyzes the events of fifty years ago in the light of what we know today, as the result of newly available archival material.

Trapped in a Cold War Travelogue

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Release : 1998-01-01
Genre : Cold War
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Book Synopsis Trapped in a Cold War Travelogue by : Blair H. Allen

Download or read book Trapped in a Cold War Travelogue written by Blair H. Allen. This book was released on 1998-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trapped

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Book Synopsis Trapped by : Anna-Lena Hatzold

Download or read book Trapped written by Anna-Lena Hatzold. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trapped Behind the Iron Curtain

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Release : 2017-02
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Trapped Behind the Iron Curtain by : Marita Patos

Download or read book Trapped Behind the Iron Curtain written by Marita Patos. This book was released on 2017-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marita's book is about life under a tyrannical government during the Cold War in East Germany. This is the first book of its kind in the United States of America.

Trapped in the War on Terror

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Release : 2006-09-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Trapped in the War on Terror by : Ian Lustick

Download or read book Trapped in the War on Terror written by Ian Lustick. This book was released on 2006-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ian Lustick has written a brave, forceful, and very valuable book. I wish that every politician promising to 'defend' America would read what he has to say. Failing that, the voters should."—James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly

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