Sensory warfare in the global Cold War: partition, propaganda, covert operations

Introduction. Sensory warfare in the global Cold War / Bodo Mrozek

Part I. Seduction, manipulation, othering. Chocolate paratroopers and Eisenhower packages for Eastern Europe : nourishing partition through color and taste / Victoria Phillips

Between soir de Paris and red Moscow : olfactory front lines in Polish perfumery / Stephanie Weissman

Beyond the bamboo curtain : sensing the Chinese cultural revolution / Cyril Cordoba

Sensual sirens : gendering Berlin's Cold War telephony / Mark Fenemore

Part II. Partition, propaganda, sensory borders. Breaking the aquatic sound barrier : hearing yourself and your enemy across the Taiwan Strait / Dayton Lekner

Listening to the voices of exile : Radio Free Europe in Romania / Andreea Deciu Ritivoi

Hearing Korea, seeing Cuba : NO-DO as sonic and visual propaganda in Francoist Spain / José Manuel López Torán

The smell of the Berlin Wall : olfactory border management at the inner-European frontier / Bodo Mrozek

Part III. Mind control, covert operations, overt warfare. Hallucinated sensations : brainwashing and mind control in psychochemical CIA experiments / Walter E. Grunden

To inform and deceive : sensory approaches in the military propaganda of Cold War Germany / Carsten Richter

Sniffing the enemy : chemical detection during the Vietnam War / Christy Spackman

Heroes at the Hindu Kush : seeing the Afghan War through the Soviet lens / Markus Mirschel.