Four Years Behind the Iron Curtain SIGNED 1st Edition Hardcover in Dust Jacket 1971 by Steve Cebuhar - Cold War - Diplomat - Memoirs

Title: Four Years Behind the Iron Curtain

Author: Steve Cebuhar

Description: Inscribed by the author on ffep. Stated First Edition. Blue boards with white lettering on spine. Dust jacket lightly toned; spine faded; rear panel has a couple short closed tears and some light general soiling; not price clipped. DJ in clear archival sleeve. 208 pp. 8.25 x 5.5 inches.

Personal narrative of Steve J. Cebuhar (1916-1983), who worked for the U.S. Foreign Service in the early years of the Cold War, which included four years in Russia, Yugoslavia and Poland during the late 1940's. He was serving in Moscow under Ambassador Averell Harriman during the Yalta Conference. During his career with the State Department he served a total of eleven years in American embassies and consulates in Beirut, Moscow, Belgrade, Zagreb, Gdansk, Munich, Dublin, Venice and Le Havre.

His tales of harassment by secret police, the strong-arm methods of intimidation, and the tactics of terrorism in general are hair-raising. He himself almost gets rundown by a car in a deserted courtyard in Bucharest and subsequently uncovers the presence of a spy in the Embassy in Belgrade.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Vantage Press
Place: New York
Year: 1971

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: Cold War, diplomats, Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, United States, Eastern Bloc, communism, Foreign Service, personal narratives, 1940's.