The undermining of Communism in Poland and elsewhere through books: here is the story of the CIA programme to disseminate banned literature (Arendt, Solzhenitsyn, Orwell, etc.) behind the Iron Curtain. Millions of books were smuggled over the border, in suitcases, on trucks, dropped from balloons… Later, illicit presses helped along the publication of samizdat literature. A deeply researched and fascinating account.