false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg 6672088 1 <strong>The books altered the course of history; the lives behind them have the dark fascination of fiction.</strong> The subject of <em>The Anti-Communist Manifestos</em> is four influential books that informed the great political struggle known as the Cold War: <em>Darkness at Noon</em> (1940), by Arthur Koestler, a Hungarian journalist and polymath intellectual; <em>Out of the Night</em> (1941), by Jan Valtin, a German sailor and labor agitator; <em>I Chose Freedom</em> (1946), by Victor Kravchenko, a Soviet engineer; and <em>Witness</em> (1952), by Whittaker Chambers, an American journalist. The authors were ex–Communist Party members whose bitter disillusionment led them to turn on their former allegiance in literary fury.<p /> <p /> Koestler was a rapist, Valtin a thug. Kravchenko, though not a spy, was forced to live like one in America. Chambers was a prophet without honor in his own land. Three of the four had been underground espionage agents of the Comintern. All contemplated suicide, and two of them achieved it. John V. Fleming’s humane and ironic narrative of these grim lives reveals that words were the true driving force behind the Cold War.<p /> 4 photos. 6867050 17 8 2009 The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War total:1|4:1| 1 4 17 1 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 4 0 false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 22:52:53 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 23:00:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Wed Nov 18 07:10:37 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 07:10:37 -0800 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Sun Nov 15 15:43:30 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 15:43:30 -0800 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Sun Nov 08 11:47:30 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 11:47:30 -0800 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Sun Nov 08 10:38:44 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 10:38:44 -0800 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Tue Nov 03 15:11:52 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 15:27:17 -0800 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Wed Oct 14 10:23:55 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 10:23:55 -0700 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Tue Sep 29 19:27:56 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 19:27:56 -0700 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Fri Sep 25 15:48:56 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 15:48:56 -0700 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Sat Sep 19 23:03:11 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 23:03:22 -0700 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 17:01:12 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 06:04:57 -0700 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Fri Sep 11 17:15:57 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 17:15:57 -0700 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Thu Sep 03 10:11:18 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 10:11:18 -0700 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Thu Sep 03 03:34:49 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 03:34:49 -0700 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Tue Aug 25 20:51:09 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 20:51:30 -0700 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Mon Aug 17 13:24:38 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 13:24:38 -0700 2009 6672088 0393069257 9780393069259 1 1 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255965364m/6672088.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672088-the-anti-communist-manifestos 0 0 false Mon Aug 17 06:27:22 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 11:10:23 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6672088