496 pages Cloth, rubbed and slightly faded on spine, with wear to top edge of spine. Dated inscription from Winston [Churchill] to Jan Smuts on half title page.
Born into a Ukrainian family with a non-party, revolutionary father, Kravchenko (1905-1966) became an engineer. During the Second World War he served as a Captain in the Soviet Army before being posted to the Soviet Purchasing Commission in Washington, DC. In 1944 he abandoned his post and requested political asylum in the United States. The Soviet authorities, however, unsuccessfully demanded his immediate extradition, calling him a traitor. I CHOSE FREEDOM was a bestseller and infuriated communist parties across Europe. He sued a French communist weekly, LES LETTRES FRANCAISES for libel in the aftermath to publication. After he won the case, he later wrote I CHOSE JUSTICE (1950). He died in suspicious circumstances in New York.
Churchill gave his famous "Iron Curtain" speech on 5 March 1946 at Westminister College, Fulton, Missouri.
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