During the Cold Battle, stories of espionage became popular on both edges of the Iron Curtain, recording the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police force quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously, in the post-Cold War period there are no signs of the enthusiasm diminishing.

The opening of secret police archives in lots of Eastern Europe has provided the opportunity to excavate and narrate forgotten spy stories for the very first time. Cold Battle Spy Stories from Eastern Europe brings together an array of accounts put together through the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB documents. The stories certainly are a complicated amalgam of reality and fiction, background and imagination, previous and present. These tales of collusion and complicity, betrayal and treason, right and wrong, and good and evil cast surprising fresh light within the question of Chilly Battle certainties and divides.