The Cold War: A New History, Paperback

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...

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...

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

Reducere. Jeffrey T. Richelson reveals the history of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, from the events leading to its creation in 1974 to today. Defusing ...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!History called on Harry Truman to unite the Western world against Soviet communism, but first he had to rally Republicans...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Architecture is a constant presence in the study of human interaction--acting as both the ground on which human social behavior is performed and a ...

This is the fascinating history of how the radical delta-wing became the design of choice for early British and American high-performance jets, and...

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

Reducere. This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemp...

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...

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

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...

Reducere. Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in ...

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...

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. The final volume in Richard Rhodes's prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in th...

Reducere. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Civil War, May the Road Rise Up to Meet You is a story of four unforgettable characters who, together, ill...

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

Reducere. What possessed a woman from the elite of eighteenth-century New England society to conspire with American and British soldiers to murder her husban...

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. The world into which India wakes is a nightmare decimated by a global recession, caused by the coronavirus pandemic originating in China and engulf...

This new edition of An Introduction to Middle East Politics continues to provide an expansive survey of Middle East politics, thoroughly revised an...

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispers...

The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a ...

Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize "Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic histo...

Reducere. No person involved in so much history received so little attention as the late Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. senator. In "The Last Great...

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

Reducere. With a new preface by the author Controversial in nature, this book demonstrates that the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb against...

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

Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power The year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black li...

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

Today, race seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. There still exists a general abhorrence about discriminating between people according to their...

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...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD AND THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIESGOOD MORNING AMERICA MUST READ NEW BO...

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...

We are living in some of the most discouraging times in my lifetime, which has spanned some very bad periods; the Depression, World War II, the Kor...

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

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

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...

Reducere. Military interventions on supposedly humanitarian grounds have become an established feature of the post-Cold War global order. Since September 11,...

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

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...

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

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...

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. From one of the world's greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voice as a novelist at Makerere University in Uganda as a student I...

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

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. Behind this decision lay another. Whose forces would be the first to reach Berlin? General Dwight David Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Britis...

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...

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...

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. 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...

Reducere. DescriptionThe eagerly awaited second volume of Paul Robeson Jr.'s acclaimed biography of his father, the legendary singer, actor, and social activ...

Reducere. DescriptionA gripping account of the disastrous Russian submarine explosion that killed the entire crew, devastated the Russian people, and defined...

Reducere. Description The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death. With Hiroshima and the Cold War still...

Reducere. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions...

Reducere. Told from the perspective of flashbacks in 2019, when all the Earth is convulsing and the United States of America is collapsing due either to Natu...

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...