Broadcasting Freedom

A ground-breaking history of RFE-RL that is both erudite and a delight to read.... Should help rescue the radios from the 'memory hole' to which their detractors are attempting to consign them.

~American Spectator

Puddington does as excellent job of reconstructing the enormous problems faced by the organizers of the radios.... A finely balanced and definitive history.

~Commentary

A fine telling of a little known U.S. project that prevented the evil empire from exercising a monopoly on news and opinion.

~First Things

Puddington remains an astute and insightful storyteller with unusually strong access to relevant people and personal archives.

~Journal of American History

Puddington leaves little doubt that the Radios served an extremely valuable purpose.

~National Review

Important precisely because Americans are largely unaware of the widespread use of short-wave radio abroad, not to mention the foreign radio broadcasts aimed at them.

~Orbis

Puddington's narrative of the conduct of these two stations is candid and, so far as I can tell, fair.... Well written.

~Political Communications

No one measure won the Cold War—but Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty should be in the first rank of those getting the highest medals. Puddington tells the story with style and grace.

~R. James Woolsey

Has much to offer students of international broadcasting and propaganda studies for its detailed account of RFE-RL inner workings.

~Rhetoric and Public Affairs

Detailed and balanced.

~Strategic Review

A thoughtful, readable and indispensable historical volume on the United States' most unusual weapons against communism during the Cold War era.

~Survival

A thorough and evenhanded account of the role that this surrogate home radio service provided.

~Times Literary Supplement

A compelling chronicle of one crucial battlefront in the Cold War.

~Wall Street Journal

Useful to anyone interested in the minutiae of American foreign policy in Eastern Europe after World War II.

~Washington Post Book World

Anyone wanting a complete picture of how the Cold War was waged and how it came to an end will have to read it.

~Washington Times