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A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit: CIA and MI6 Covert Action in Communist Albania at the Dawn of the Cold War

Stephen Long

This account of a “vital but misunderstood” episode in Cold War history charts the covert joint British and US efforts to overthrow the Communist government in Albania in 1949, a test case of anti-communist action.

Icon Books, £25.00, 4 June 2026, 9781837732241

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Caroline Sanderson worked as a Waterstones bookseller, and as a book publicist before becoming a freelance writer in 1997. The ...

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