Ike's Mystery Man: The Secret Lives Of Robert Cutler. The Cold War, The Lavender Scare, And the Untold Story of Eisenhower's First National Security A

Publisher: Steerforth PressAuthor(s): Peter ShinkleIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are y...

Reducere. This book addresses a central question about the Cold War that has never been adequately resolved. Why did the United States go to such lengths not...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough dramatic incidents tells for the first time the full story of the development of Cold War naval intelligence from the end of WWI...

Reducere. Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 195...

This is the most comprehensive history to date of the Truman Administration's progressive embroilment in the cold war, and it presents a stunning n...

Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 195...

Reducere. A "detective story" that delivers key insights for any businessperson asking the questions: who really are our customers, why do we lose them, how ...

Reducere. When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and ...

The story of the six-day battle that began the War in Afghanistan and how it set the scene for twenty years of conflict.Publisher: Welbeck Publishi...

A doctor and physiologist, Griffith Pugh revolutionised almost every aspect of British high-altitude mountaineering, transforming the climbers' att...

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncAuthor(s): Sam KleinerIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 304Public...

Reducere. A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic World War II escape and the real-life adventures that followed.On August 30, 1942 - 'Zero Night' -...

The riveting story of an unsung World War II hero who saved countless American lives in the Philippines.Publisher: Little, Brown & CompanyAuthor(s)...

A brilliantly original take on the First World War, tracing the Indian army's journey from a small professional service to a crucial part of the co...

Reducere. National Geographic presents provocative stories shedding new light on the Civil War, American history's watershed, from Union and Confederate sold...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Indepe...

DescriptionAs Jeff hitchhiked across the country, his mind was focused on getting clean, sober, and starting over, again. At 27-years old, Jeff had...

Reducere. "A gripping account of how decent people can be taken in by a charismatic and crazed tyrant" (The New York Times Book Review). In 1954, a past or n...

How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world's managed bee coloniesHumans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia,...

Reducere. Description A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Excellent...This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down." -- The New York Times Book...

Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593), is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan spy and diplomat who was am...

Reducere. The shocking true story of the United States government's quest to hide the reality of extraterrestrial contact, even at the cost of its citizens. ...

Mike Pressler walked into the bottomfloor meeting room of the Murray Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year career at D...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An incredible story of under-appreciated heroism." - USA Today, Five Books to Read This Week "A compelling biography o...

Reducere. The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback--an incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, an...

The true story that inspired The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming

Reducere. If someone who is rich and powerful comes to you for a favor, you don't persecute him - you help him. Having such a person indebted to you is a gre...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey's study of Canada's security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caug...

A narrative history of the craft cocktail renaissance, written by a New York Times cocktail writer and one of the foremost experts on the subject. ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the summer of 1950, a most unlikely group was assembled to represent its country in the first soccer World Cup since World War II. Th...

Reducere. DescriptionDrawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War IWhile their story is almost a...

Reducere. ``Code Girls reveals a hidden army of female cryptographers, whose work played a crucial role in ending World War II.... Mundy has rescued a piece ...

Reducere. Like a scene from Where Eagles Dare, a small team of American spies parachutes into Italy behind enemy lines. Their orders: link up with local part...

The story of the First World War in Africa, an almost forgotten conflict that devastated an area five times the size of Germany and killed more tha...

The story of the First World War in Africa, an almost forgotten conflict that devastated an area five times the size of Germany and killed more tha...

Reducere. In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers battling in Afghanis...

Reducere. Commonwealth Club of California Book Award winner, Californiana category On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle a...

Reducere. DescriptionDonegal was one of the counties used to launch this offensive against the newly established government in the six counties. The bulk of ...

Reducere. Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dro...

Reducere. On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each oth...

Vera Brittain and the First World War. The Story of Testament of Youth - Mark Bostridge

Reducere. Assassination by crossbow, refueling homemade planes in mid-air, mother and daughter seduction--Allied spy Tommy Sneum did it all during World War ...

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they sh...

Born in Massachusetts, Jared Bibler relocated to Iceland in 2004 only to find himself in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis a handful ...