The Cold War: A New History, Paperback

Reducere. The definitive history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world The Cold War began on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepe...

Reducere. With 70 FREE-TO-DOWNLOAD high-resolution infographics to aid historical comprehension. Following on from the success of An Infographic History of G...

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

Superpower relations and the Cold War 1941-91 Student Book is part of Oxford's brand new Edexcel GCSE History series. This textbook series provides...

Reducere. The Cold War wasn't a war in the normal sense of the word. It was a series of wars, protests, conflicts, and events that took place from after Worl...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the Cold War gripped the world with fear of espionage and nuclear winter, everyday Wisconsinites found themselves embroiled in the st...

Established in the 1940s, the Five Eyes intelligence network consists of Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The allian...

Reducere. Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War. The two men embodied opposing strategies for winning the conflict. Ye...

In a brilliant new interpretation, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall reexamine the successes and failures of America's Cold War. This provocative...

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...

A small group of scientists were doggedly working in the field of antiviral treatments when the AIDS epidemic struck. Faced with one of the grand c...

Reducere. How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and the steep price he paid for failingJim Thompson landed in Thaila...

A new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 16: The Cold War and the Americas (1945-1981)The renowned IB Diploma History series, ...

Reducere. Description1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on...

A fresh, new study on the overlooked history of the backbone of the Cold War US Navy, the go-anywhere, do-anything frigate. Though they were never ...

Reducere. In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. ...

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

Reducere. From a veteran air-refueling expert who flew missions for over two decades during the Cold War, Gulf War, and Iraq War comes a thrilling eyewitness...

Reducere. Out of the ashes of Imperial China arose two new contenders to lead a reformed nation; the Chinese Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang, and the Chine...

Retaining all the well-loved features, this book is now matched to the new AQA specification and covers AS and A Level content together. With a str...

Clear Revise illustrated revision and practice for Edexcel GCSE History. Absolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of GCSE History revision...

From the Biblical days of Delilah to modern times there have been women who ventured at their peril as spies into the conflicts of armed men. Recou...

Reducere. Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civi...

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. In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hoped that a policy of appeasement would satisfy Adolf Hitler's territorial appetite and structured Bri...

DescriptionThe gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition--but also recovery, reuni...

Reducere. "This book has been long needed: a concise, complete and dispassionate survey of the Vietnam War.... Best of all, the no-nonsense approach answers ...

Reducere. History Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of wid...

Reducere. 170, 000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 - the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Australia's first immigration min...

Reducere. On September 5, 1945, Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko severed ties with his embassy in Ottawa, Canada, reporting allegations to authorities of a ...

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. The New York Times-bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century--five decades that transformed America--from the author of Only Y...

Reducere. What went wrong in Vietnam? Michael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestsell...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gulf War, then keep reading...The late 1980s and early 1990s were times of significant chang...

CATCH THE EXPRESS TO SUCCESS WITH FAST TRACK: U.S. History Covering the most important material taught in high school American history class, Fast ...

Reducere. The true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilo...

In a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story ...

Reducere. The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts ana...

DescriptionOn the Home Front is the only comprehensive history of the Hanford Nuclear Site, America's most productive and wasteful plutonium manufa...

The bombing campaign that was meant to keep South Vietnam secure, Rolling Thunder became a byword for pointless, ineffective brutality, and was a k...

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity,...

In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army's select, American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdere...

Reducere. For the first twenty-five years of his career, Lucky Luciano was a vicious mobster who became the king of the New York underworld. For the next twe...

The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. "The liveliness of Mo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dale C. CopelandOne of the most important questions of human existence is what drives nations to war--especially massive, s...

Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. 'With its c...

The Bradley Fighting Vehicle was developed in the 1970s to counter the new Infantry Fighting Vehicles of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allie...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th centu...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th centu...

Film emerged in pre-Revolutionary Russia to become the 'most important of all arts' for the new Bolshevik regime and its propaganda machine. The 19...

"A GRIPPING CLASSIC. Exhaustively researched, The Hunter Killers puts you directly into a Wild Weasel fighter cockpit during the Vietnam War. Dan H...

Since the end of the Cold War, America's national security establishment has been searching for a new operating theory to explain how this seemingl...

Reducere. In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile exceptionalism is not unique to America, the intensity of this conviction and its global ramifications are. This has led the US to...

Reducere. THE NEW BOOK from MATTHEW ROZELL in the best-selling 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' World War II oral history series.In THE BULGE AND BEYOND, you wil...

Reducere. A uniquely comprehensive and rich account of the Soviet intelligence services, Jonathan Haslam's Near and Distant Neighbors charts the labyrinthine...

Montauk, the easternmost hamlet in the town of East Hampton, is located at the end of Long Island--118 miles out to sea and surrounded on three sid...

DescriptionThe story of how the Israeli Force achieved one of the most audacious and important air power victories in history, wiping out enemy air...

Reducere. A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and...

DescriptionGet the perfect gift for Dad this Father's Day: President Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marc DollingerMarc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal conse...

Reducere. In the early years of the Cold War, the United States mounted expansive public diplomacy programs in the Global South, including initiatives with t...

Reducere. A moving and entrancing novel set in Paris during World War II about an American woman, a dashing pilot, and a young Jewish girl whose fates unexpe...

WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE ``I devoured Act of War the way I did Flyboys, Flags of Our Fathers and Lost in Shang...

Reducere. The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the hum...

Reducere. With the exception of a few iconic moments such as Rosa Parks's 1955 refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, we hear little about what bla...

"The Gimmicks is a gorgeous epic that astounds with its scope and beauty. With empathy and humor, McCormick unravels the ties between brotherhood a...

Reducere. Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team--led by an obsessed retired F...

"Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands of a storyteller as s...

After the failed April 1972 invasion of South Vietnam and the heavy US tactical bombing raids in the Hanoi area, the North Vietnamese agreed to ret...