Growing up, journalist Michael Visontay knew that his Hungarian-born father had survived Auschwitz (while losing his own mother there), and that the family had ultimately emigrated to Australia after ...

Over three decades before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the CIA funnelled 10m books into the eastern bloc, including George Orwell’s “1984”, John le Carré’s spy thrillers and Virginia Woolf’s ...