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Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain Paperback - 2001

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Author: Grose, Peter
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by Peter Grose

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Fascinating . . . well-documented . . . thought-provoking and entertaining” (Publishers Weekly), Operation Rollback is a tale of intrigue and espionage that reveals how and why suspicions on both sides drove the world into the Cold War. In 1945 the United States and the Soviet Union started secretly mobilizing forces against each other, building intricate intelligence networks of spies and digging in for the postwar era. America’s secret action plan, known as Rollback, was an audacious strategy of espionage, subversion, and sabotage. Concealed for four decades by all involved, the dangerous episodes of the Rollback campaign have only now come to light.

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Fascinating . . . well-documented . . . thought-provoking and entertaining" (Publishers Weekly), Operation Rollback is a tale of intrigue and espionage that reveals how and why suspicions on both sides drove the world into the Cold War. In 1945 the United States and the Soviet Union started secretly mobilizing forces against each other, building intricate intelligence networks of spies and digging in for the postwar era. America's secret action plan, known as Rollback, was an audacious strategy of espionage, subversion, and sabotage. Concealed for four decades by all involved, the dangerous episodes of the Rollback campaign have only now come to light.

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AS THE NAZI REICH was crumbling all around him early in 1945, Joseph Goebbels, creative propagandist for Hitler, shared his forebodings with the German people in an editorial.

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Title Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain
Author Peter Grose
Binding Paperback
Edition 1st Printing
Pages 272
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Mariner Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Publication date 2001-11-19
Illustrated Yes
Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780618154586 / 0618154582
Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
Dimensions 8.68 x 5.72 x 0.73 in (22.05 x 14.53 x 1.85 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region: Russian
Category History - U.S.
Library of Congress subjects Cold War, United States - Foreign relations - Soviet
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99089830
Dewey Decimal Code 327.127

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