Battle for Angola. The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89, Paperback - Al J. Venter

A detailed examination of the events before and after the Battle of Angola, with several chapters covering the colonial struggle between Africa and...

Al-Qaeda, through its surrogate insurgent force al-Shabaab remains a major player in Somalia, receiving its support from Iran, today a close ally o...

Reducere. On 26 December, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet, just six years earlier, when Mikhail Gorbach ...

Leading historians and political scientists explore the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Using...

Set against the back-drop of the Cold War, Al Venter examines the Soviet-led guerrilla conflict in Portuguese Guinea which sought to expel the Port...

Reducere. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...

The Human Factor tells the dramatic story about the part played by political leaders - particularly the three very different personalities of Gorba...

Reducere. In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking ...

Reducere. As secretary of state, James A. Baker III played a critical role on the world stage in the final years of the Cold War as the Soviet Union unravele...

The first study of Israeli foreign policy towards the Middle East and selected world powers, including China, India, the European Union and the US ...

Reducere. In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western eco...

Successfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace. This bespoke series from the leading History publisher follows our proven ...

DescriptionFrom its inception, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) provoked controversy. Today it is widely regarded as hav...

Radio technology and broadcasting played a central role in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, ...

Insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere-the majority linked to al Qaeda-are in the news on an almost daily basis. But very li...

Reducere. DescriptionThis rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and Am...

Reducere. Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers the first complete biography in English of the dynamic revolutionary leader from Burkina ...

Reducere. Tales from the Cold War is one man's memoir about his service time in Germany during the Cold War. Colonel Michael D. Mahler (Ret.) first went to G...

A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of ...

Reducere. South Africa's armed forces invaded Angola in 1975, setting off a war that had consequences for the whole region that are still felt today.A Far-Aw...

In the dying days of the USSR, battlelines have shifted from spycraft to the cut-throat capitalism and it's intellectual property, not state secret...

Back in the 1950s during the "Cold War" every new day beckoned the possibility of the end of the world. Kids grew up in the shadow of bomb shelters...

Reducere. Major General J. F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and h...

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire is a key event in the shaping of modern times. From its ruin rose new countries including Syria and Turkey. This...

Looking back to the evolution of foreign aid during the Cold War, David C. Engerman invites us to recognize the strategic thinking at the heart of ...

In this magisterial and groundbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's internationa...

Reducere. This collection studies Asia as a second front in the Cold War, examining U.S.-Soviet rivalry in terms of the foreign policies of China, Japan, Nor...

There's a start and end to everything, war included. In this case, we'll be learning about how the cold war ended and what the contribution of the ...

The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timePublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): David AndersonIllustra...

Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s): Herbert J. SternNumber of pages: 408Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 32Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. The mission of the U.S. Navy's fast attack submarines during the Cold War was a closely guarded secret for many years, but this look back at the pe...