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Both profound and profoundly important and as engaging as a gripping Cold War thriller * Kirkus *

Duncan White's fascinating new book on the role of literature in the Cold War . . . It frequently grips like a thriller, even in the sections in which White is dealing with intellectual ideas rather than blackmail and violence -- Jake Kerridge * Sunday Telegraph * Both profound and profoundly important and as engaging as a gripping Cold War thriller * Kirkus * A breezily readable group biography . . . raises some haunting questions -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times * Absorbing . . . Cold Warriors reads like a thriller . . . However, this is also a book about personal and political liberty; about the freedom to write, mock and dissent; about truth, lies and wilful ignorance . . . [an] ambitious, intelligent, searching history -- Laura Freeman * The Times *

Both profound and profoundly important and as engaging as a gripping Cold War thriller - Kirkus Absorbing . . . Cold Warriors reads like a thriller . . . However, this is also a book about personal and political liberty; about the freedom to write, mock and dissent; about truth, lies and wilful ignorance . . . [an] ambitious, intelligent, searching history - The Times A breezily readable group biography . . . raises some haunting questions - Sunday Times Duncan White's fascinating new book on the role of literature in the Cold War . . . It frequently grips like a thriller, even in the sections in which White is dealing with intellectual ideas rather than blackmail and violence - Sunday Telegraph White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose will have you hooked all the way from Orwell to le Carre - Sunday Times

Both profound and profoundly important and as engaging as a gripping Cold War thriller * Kirkus * A breezily readable group biography . . . raises some haunting questions -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times * Absorbing . . . Cold Warriors reads like a thriller . . . However, this is also a book about personal and political liberty; about the freedom to write, mock and dissent; about truth, lies and wilful ignorance . . . [an] ambitious, intelligent, searching history -- Laura Freeman * The Times *

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Duncan White is a journalist and academic who combines his position as Associate Director of the History & Literature department at Harvard University with his role as a lead book reviewer and feature writer for the Telegraph. He is the author of Nabokov and His Books, and has established himself as a scholarly authority on mid-century American and Russian literature, with a particular focus on the Cold War. After completing his DPhil at Oxford, he moved to the United States where he was appointed a Newhouse research fellow at Wellesley College. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Duncan is British and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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