Spying on Canadians. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the Origins of the Long Cold War, Paperback - Gregory S. Kealey

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...

Expert....[Jankowski] shrewdly juxtaposes interminable peace and disarmament conferences and political events with the national mood in a dozen cou...

How ideas moved the world from post-war to pre-war once more.

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...

The United States, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife's edge of war for more than seventy years. By mapping the hi...

Offering a fascinating biography of a foundational theory, Amadae reveals not only how the ideological battles of the Cold War shaped ideas but als...

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

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 ...

For more than 50 years, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has been central to the secret machinery of the British Government, acting as a brok...

Reducere. Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salva...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jonathan MarshallNumber of pages: 298Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 19Cover type...

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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...

Publisher: Ronsdale PressAuthor(s): Doris GregoryIllustration(s): 40 b/w photosNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 230 x 154 x 14...

Reducere. Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its...

DescriptionA vivid exploration of the many ways the classical world remains relevant today, this is a passionate justification of why we continue t...

Publisher: Stanton Atkins & DosilAuthor(s): Charles WilkinsNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 235 x 225 x 26Cover type: Hardback...

Beginning in the early morning hours of July 16, 1942, and lasting for two days, the French police went beyond Nazi ordinances and took it upon the...

The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that cap...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Amy B. ZegartIn this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures th...

Publisher: Queen's UniversityAuthor(s): Peter GizewskiNumber of pages: 304Collection: Queen's Policy Studies SeriesPublication date: 2011Dimensions...

The Great Cold War is arguably the most fascinating account yet written about the Cold War--and a timely enunciation of the lessons we need to lear...

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Publisher: Monday BooksAuthor(s): David CopperfieldNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 197 x 133 x 20Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Publisher: Linden Publishing Co IncIllustration(s): 41 b/w photosNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 185 x 261 x 24Cover type: Ha...

William's war diaries reveals the day-to-day detail of his life at the front, as well as relating his experience of key events.Publisher: Pen & Swo...

Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy...

Experts analyse the impact of World War II on individual countries and regions, and how its legacy continues to shape political and military thinki...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Vaclava JandeckovaNumber of pages: 178Collection: OsteuropaPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 210 x 12Cover ty...

Reducere. ``An indispensable and riveting account`` of the CIA's development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The...

Reducere. Almost 200 million human beings, mostly civilians, have died in wars over the last century, and there is no end of slaughter in sight.The Most Dang...

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

Publisher: Trine DayAuthor(s): Gregory S. DongesNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and te...

Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, this reader assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of internati...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lonnie M. LongAuthor: Gary B. BlackburnIn early May 1961, a U.S. military aircraft taxied toward a well-guarded terminal bu...