Giorgi, Oltre la cortina di ferro

Missioni di spionaggio, sabotaggio e guerriglia durante la Guerra Fredda

Behind the Iron Curtain, a silent war raged, waged not by armies on the battlefield, but in secret: secret agents, Ukrainian, Polish, Baltic, Albanian, and Romanian partisans clandestinely infiltrated territories under Soviet control. This essay systematically reconstructs, for the first time, the infiltration operations of the Westparticularly the United States and Great Britain, but also less suspect countries like Sweden and Italyin Eastern Europe during the early postwar years. A historiographical gap has been filled thanks to the gradual release of CIA archives, made possible by the Freedom of Information Act and the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1999, and the more recent opening of the Kennedy assassination files in 2025. Drawing on previously unpublished sources, memoirs, survivor interviews, and KGB archives that partially survived the collapse of the USSR, the author takes the reader through the various theaters of operationfrom the Baltics to Albania, from Poland to Romaniatracing the names, faces, and stories of men who risked everything for a cause, quickly forgetting their respective Western capitals. This well-researched and compelling work of military and intelligence history reveals how, behind its official facade, the Cold War was in reality extraordinarilyand tragicallyadventurous.