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Cold War smuggling and First World War veterans
Cold War smuggling and First World War veterans
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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Jul 10, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Peter Finn and Petra Couvee reveal how the CIA tried to change the course of the Cold War by smuggling banned literature into the USSR, including Boris Pasternak's 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago. Plus, in the second instalment of a series of extracts of interviews with First World War veterans – recorded by the Imperial War Museum – retired parachutist Dolly Shepherd, reservist George Ashurst and Royal Navy seaman George Wainford take us back to July 1914: Franz Ferdinand is dead, and war is looming on the horizon. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Jul 10, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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