The Kilt Behind the Curtain: A Scotsman in Ceausescu's Romania

By Ronald Mackay

Sent deep behind the Iron Curtain to Bucharest by the British Government in 1967, Ronald Mackay serves as the "sharp end" of a trade initiative. How will he fare in communist-run Romania where suspicion abounds and Ceausescu's Secret Police are everywhere? With irony-tinged humour, Ronald tells of seductive informants; an ex-political-prisoner-turned-spy; fearful minorities; a hunting trip with the Communist elite; travels in Dracula's Transylvania; of running into a company of armed tanks; and of threatening Charles de Gaulle's attempt to be the first Western premier to court this bright but baffling tyrant-run country.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08KRXJ296
• ISBN13: 9798683193768
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"