Phantom in the Cold War. RAF Wildenrath 1977 - 1992, Hardback - David Gledhill

Focusses on the McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom's role as an air defence fighter.

The path from "Civvy Street" to operational on a fighter squadron was arduous and beset with obstacles. The prize was to fly the iconic Phantom on ...

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Absorbing analysis of fighter pilots, their culture and ethos presented by a long-standing member of the fraternity. During his career, the author ...

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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 ...

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In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but al...

This intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930-2008), the prominent Russian historian who was a leading scholar of US history and Ru...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): John D. RowbottomIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 408Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 233 ...

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. With Guatemala as the case study, this title ar...

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Money is changing. David Birch sets out the economic and technological imperatives of digital money, discussing the impact of it and the tensions i...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Paschalis (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) PechlivanisNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2020Dime...

In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer, was shot down over Manchuria. He was captured by the Chinese and held for the ...

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DescriptionOn September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page article "Revealed: the quiet woman who betrayed Britain for 40 years. ...

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Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): James D. HornfischerIllustration(s): Three 16-PP photo inserts; mapsNumber of pages: 640Publication date:...

How Kim Philby, master-spy and double agent, became the mentor of CIA boss James Angleton, then his mortal enemy, in the Second World War and Cold War

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Reducere. Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) rejected her segregationist, privileged past to become one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies. ...

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This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It p...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Jonna PerrilloIllustration(s): 15 halftonesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimension...

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Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cin...

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DescriptionThis is the story of 2 Group RAF during World War II. Much of it is told by the men who flew the Blenheim, Boston, Mitchell and Mosquito...

A riveting first-hand account from a member of Tornado aircrew who lived life to the full both in the air and on the ground.

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In the depths of the Republic's catastrophic winter, Major Karin Muller is called upon to stop a group of 'escapers' from crossing the frozen Ostee.

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