Recommended English books…
Laurien Alexandre, The Voice of America: From Detente to the Reagan Doctrine (Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing, 1988). ISBN 0-89391-465-7.
E.W. Barrett, Truth is Our Weapon (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1953). No ISBN.
Asa Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom. Five vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961-95). ISBN 0-19-212926-0.
D.R. Browne, International Radio Broadcasting: The Limits of the Limitless Medium (New York: Praeger, 1982). ISBN 0-03-059619-X.
James Critchlow, Radio-hole-in-the-head: an insider’s story of Cold War broadcasting (New York: American University Press, 1995). ISBN 1-879383-47-0.
J.A. Hale, Radio Power: Propaganda and International Broadcasting(London: Paul Elek, 1975). ISBN 0 236 31018 6.
Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Britain’s Secret Propaganda War (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998). ISBN 0 7509 1668 0.
Paul Lendvai, The Bureaucracy of Truth: How Communist Governments Manage the News (London: Burnett Books, 1981).ISBN 0233 97290 0.
M.Lisann, Broadcasting to the Soviet Union: International Politics and Radio (New York: Praeger, 1975). ISBN 0-275-05590-6.
Gerard Mansell, Let Truth Be Told: 50 Years of BBC External Broadcasting(London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1982). ISBN 0 297 78158 8.
R.Pirsein, Voice of America: An History of the International Broadcasting Activities of the United States Government 1940-1962 (New York: Arno Press, 1979). 0-405-11770-1.
Arch Puddington, Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2000). ISBN 0-8131-2158-2.
Gary D. Rawnsley, Radio Diplomacy and Propaganda: The BBC and VOA in International Politics, 1956-64 (London: MacMillan, 1996). ISBN 0-312-12972-6.
K.R.M. Short (ed.), Western Broadcasting over the Iron Curtain (London: Croom Helm, 1986). ISBN 0-7099-4438-1.
Thomas C. Sorenson, The Word War: The Story of American Propaganda (New York: Harper and Row, 1968).
Gene Sosin, Sparks of liberty: an insider’s memory of Radio Liberty(University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999). ISBN 0-271-01869-0.
Philip M. Taylor, Munitions of the Mind: A history of propaganda from the ancient world to the present era (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995). ISBN 0 7190 4829 X.
John Tusa, Conversations with the World (London: BBC, 1990). ISBN 0 563 36006 2.
Andrew Walker, A Skyful of Freedom: 60 years of the BBC World Service(London: Broadside Books, 1992). ISBN 1874092 03-6.
David Wedgwood Benn, Persuasion and Soviet Politics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989). ISBN 0-631-15639-9.
Français
Mikhail Gorbachev, Décembre 1991: l’histoire des jours qui virent disparaître l’URSS (Paris: CopArt Editions, 1993) ISBN 2940051305.
Jean Huteau, Bernard Ullmann, AFP, une histoire de l’Agence France-Presse, (Paris: Laffont, 1991) ISBN 2221058836.
Jacek Kuron: Maintenant ou jamais (Paris: Fayard, 1993) ISBN 2213029083.
Andrei Sakharov, Mémoires, (Paris: Editions de Seuil, 1990) ISBN 2020109220.
Jacques Semelin, La Liberté au bout des ondes: Du coup de Prague à la chute du mur de Berlin, (Paris: Belfond, 1997) ISBN 2-7144-3501-7.
Georgui Vatchnadze, Les médias sous Gorbatchev, (Paris: Editions de l’Espace européen, 1991) ISBN 273880148X.
Deutsch
Michail Gorbatschow, Erinnerungen,(Goldmann Vlg., 1996) ISBN 3442720370.
Andrej Sacharow, Mein Leben (Muenchen: Piper, 1991) ISBN 3492032591.
Dieter Weirich, Auftrag Deutschland, Nach der Einheit: Unser Land der Welt vermitteln, (Mainz: v Hase und Koehler Verlag, 1993) ISBN 3-7758-1291-1.
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