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Trapped in the Cold War : The Ordeal of an American Family /
The disappearance behind the Iron Curtain of the American brothers Noel and Hermann Field in 1949, followed by that of Noel's wife and their foster daughter, was one of the most publicized international mysteries of the Cold War. This dual memoir gives an intensely human dimension to that strug...
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Contents -- |t Prologue -- |t 1. August Afternoon in 1949 -- |t 2. Warsaw Courtyard -- |t 3. Journey to Nowhere -- |t 4. Vacation's End -- |t 5. But Muffin Could Hear -- |t 6. Shock -- |t 7. Days and Nights -- |t 8. London 1949 -- |t 9. London 1950 -- |t 10. Face to Face -- |t 11. Stanislaw -- |t 12. Cell University -- |t 13. The Oppression of Time -- |t 14. As the Second Year Began -- |t 15. Unequal Battle -- |t 16. Peepa -- |t 17. London 1951 -- |t 18. London 1952-1953 -- |t 19. Breaking Point -- |t 20. Twenty Months of Twilight -- |t 21. Final Summer -- |t 22. Forest Paradise -- |t 23. London 1954 -- |t 24. London: Battle for a Soul -- |t 25. Breaking Out -- |t 26. The Mist at Dawn -- |t 27. Kate -- |t Epilogue -- |t Afterword -- |t Identities of Names in Text -- |t Notes -- |t Annotated Bibliography -- |t Index |
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| 520 | |a The disappearance behind the Iron Curtain of the American brothers Noel and Hermann Field in 1949, followed by that of Noel's wife and their foster daughter, was one of the most publicized international mysteries of the Cold War. This dual memoir gives an intensely human dimension to that struggle, with Hermann narrating all that happened to him from the day he was abducted from the Warsaw airport to his release five years later, and Kate relating her unrelenting efforts to find her husband. Thousands of potential victims of Hitler's dragnet were rescued in 1939 and during World War II through separate efforts of the Field brothers. Arrested in Czechoslovakia in 1949, Noel was taken to Hungary and used as an example of American perfidy in show trials. Hermann went to Poland primarily to find out what had happened to his brother. After Hermann's abduction, he was taken to the cellar of a secret Polish prison, where he was held for five years. He gives us a detailed account of his battle to survive, alternating despair and horror with mordant humor. Meanwhile, his family had no idea whether he was still alive and if so, where. This moving story, based on detailed notes made by the authors during and shortly after the events described, presents an inside-outside counterpoint, as Hermann's chapters on his inward journey in his cellar world alternate with Kate's efforts in London to find him by scrutinizing accounts of political events in Eastern Europe for clues and penetrating the diplomatic corridors of power in the West for help. Hermann had been arrested by a Polish security agent who later defected and became one of the West's most important informants on Soviet operations in Eastern Europe. The search for the Field brothers was complicated by their history of leftist connections, for this tense period in the Cold War was also the era of McCarthyism in the United States. The book ends with an Epilogue that analyzes the events of fifty years ago in the light of what we know today, as the result of newly available archival material. | ||
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| 546 | |a In English. | ||
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