title: Have the Mountains Fallen?: Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War
author:  Jeffrey Lilley 
description: The stories of Chingiz Aitmatov and Azamat Altay are best told together, a herculean task which Jeffrey B. Lilleys <EM>Have The Mountains Fallen? Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War</EM> manages deftly.&nbsp;. . .&nbsp;Their storybecause it is, in essence, a single storyis that of Kyrgyzstan itself, replete with tragedy and sacrifice, hope and triumph. (<i>The Diplomat</i>)<br /><br /><P>The book is the perfect combination of exhaustive research, beautiful writing, page-turning action, inspirational heroes and verbal pictures of a little known land, people and culture. With fast-paced storytelling we experience life in the Soviet Union from Stalins Great Purges when thousands of innocent people were executed, all the way up to its collapse in 1991. We experience the torture and misery of World War II, through both mens completely different first hand experiences, the acute longing for ones homeland when one cant return, and the outwitting of the Soviet censors by a brilliant Kyrgyz author who exposes the cruelty and soulessness of the ideal "Soviet Man" in his books. And we are deeply inspired by their effortsone inside the Soviet Union, and one outside itto preserve the history and culture of Kyrgyzstan, and the soul of its people.</P> (<i>KPC News</i>)
zlib_text: The 1960s
  
  EY EW I T N E S S  H I S TORY
  Timothy Maga
  Foreword by Donald A. Ritchie
  The 1960s
  
  The 1960s
  Copyright © 2003 by Timothy Maga
  Foreword copyright © 2003 by Donald A. Ritchie
  Maps and graphs copyright © 2003 by Infobase Publishing
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means,
  electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or
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  ISBN-10: 0-8160-4809-6
  ISBN-13: 978-0-8160-4809-0
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Maga,Timothy P., 1952–
  The 1960s / by Timothy Maga.
  p.
  cm. — (An eyewitness history)
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Contents:To the “new frontier” : January 1960–December 1961—Lost in the Cold War : January
  1962–September 1963—Lessons of the Cuban missile crisi