Read it. Really enjoyed it. Different perspective on life behind the Iron Curtain.
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Has anyone read this?
Came across this when clearing out the parents house. Holds up very well even 50 years later. Works very well as a journalism procedural, the how’s and why’s of what you can and can’t publish. Also a good reminder of Republican hostility to a free press.
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Will make a change to read about Pino Nazis
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Somewhat similar subject matter, this is a good read on the Polish intellectual resistance and Solidarity movement. Different times
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United these two yesterday.
Part 1 was at home for years and Part 2 appeared yesterday in a second hand shop for the princely sum of 50 cents.
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Finished a book there called “The Spy and the Traitor”, an account of the life Oleg Gordievsky , a Russian KGB operative who switched to MI6.
Very enjoyable read and great insight into cold war spy craft
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A brilliant book
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This is a terrific read but it’s not a quick one, not for me anyway, the immediate post war area seems to have completely slipped me by in a history sense so I’m hearing about a lot of this for the first time.
I’m also listening to Killing Thatcher which is very enjoyable also, think it came highly recommended from here
Really enjoying this. Tks for the recommendation. I’m really surprised how m former German nazi war criminals were able to move around the world while on the run. Walter Rauff even spent time in West Germany
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This is a big thing for me. I am not sure if it’s the smart phone influenced search for the dopamine hit now but I don’t have the discipline or time to read a book beyond 300/400 pages.
Just finished this. Got pretty sick of Asquiths moaning for a finish.
Going to a 40th anniversary reading of Tumbling Down by Billy Roche on Thursday. The bar woman is loosely based on my aunty.
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Terry Prone, I’m sorry but I just can’t
I was only trolling.
Another book I came across when I was clearing out the parents house. About the establishment of the first penal colony in Australia and the satellite colony in Norfolk Island (if you want to see how nuts this was check Google Maps to see where Norfolk Island is). Occasionally I had to check the internet that the book was non fiction because the concept was fucking insane, sending convicts to an effectively undiscovered part of the world on the other side of the world to fend for themselves. It’s very grim in parts. It’s hard to believe that people treated each other like this only 240 years ago.
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