Ernest Hemingway to Archibald MacLeish

Highly regarded American poet, editor and critic Ezra Pound also became one of the literary world's most controversial figures when, in 1945 he was arrested by the US Army after recording hundreds of anti-American, anti-Semitic broadcasts for Italian

Nikita Khrushchev to Fidel Castro

During the Cuban Military Crisis, the US military establishment interpreted the peaceful resolution of the crisis (encouraged by Russia) in a different manner. Its opinion is best rendered by Raymond Garthoff, at the time an intelligence analyst in t

Montgomery to Urquhart

Montgomery was the most well-known British general of World War-II, famous for his victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942. The battle virtually sealed Axis' fate in Africa

Nabokov to The NY Review of Books

The letters between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, in their copiousness and elan, are the tactile remains of an love-hate relationship between the two literary individuals.

Rajiv Gandhi to J.R. Jayawardene

India had both its national security and concerns about Pakistani, Chinese and the American influence in mind while interfering in Sri Lanka. India air-dropped relief supplies to the Tamil Tiger-held Jaffna Peninsula while it was

Fidel Castro to Nikita Khrushchev

Fidel Castro to Nikita Khrushchev

George Carew to Thomas Roe