The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature

"The CIA Book Club is Charlie English’s latest true story focused on official efforts to control or destroy narratives of civic culture. The book reveals an astonishing international spy effort to flood the post-World War II communist zone with The Gulag Archipelago, among other titles. His reporting of grassroots book smuggling by the Polish people in an effort to fight Cold War tyranny with literature is a gripping account of citizens risking their lives in the service of meaning. Their story is a timeless reminder of ideas unleashed."