During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...

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Prince Harry’s memoir Spare has sold over 1.4 million English-language copies in all formats in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada, and is already in its second run, publisher Penguin Random House ...

Salomone’s South Africa chapter is among the most interesting in the book. Along with Afrikaans, English is one of South Africa’s 11 official languages, and even though only 9.6 percent of the ...