The Cold War: A New History, Paperback

Reducere. The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years o...

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

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...

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

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...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jon HunnerA social history of New Mexico's "Atomic City" Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the commu...

Reducere. This investigative feat tells the shocking, heartbreaking story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its terrible legacy of sickness and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jay FeldmanFrom Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America un...

Instant New York Times bestseller In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life--and heart--to take back her country in this exhilaratin...

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. DescriptionSooner or later, history asks, which side were you on?In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold M...

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

Reducere. ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE IS A TOUR DE FORCE, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold...

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

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. 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...

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. 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...

DescriptionAccording to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples o...

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. On the cold, dark night of March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa-el jaguar-and his band of marauders crossed the border and raided the ...

In this startling, intensively researched book, bestselling historian Paul Kengor shines light on a deeply troubling aspect of American history: th...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song, this haunting, insightful, and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hu...

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 techniques of the original Cold War have been updated and adapted for a new enemy in a new century, but the political essence is the same. The...

Reducere. Huchthausen knows the hidden history of the Cuban missile crisis . . . October Fury contains startling revelations.-- TOM CLANCY Drama on the high ...

Reducere. Description"The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy quickly established itself as a classic when it first appeared in 1981. This edition makes it even be...

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

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 ...

DescriptionIn this award-winning book, Philipp Ther provides the first comprehensive history of post-1989 Europe, offering a sweeping narrative fil...

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

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...

LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a fa...

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...

In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast arra...

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

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...

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 ...

From the "most celebrated and best-loved British historian in America" (Wall Street Journal), an elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of Winsto...

Reducere. In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a str...

Reducere. The photos in this edition are black and white. Recognized as one of the best fighters of the 1990s, the Su-27 Flanker is a single-seat supersonic ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kristen AshleyDeacon has an ugly history, a history that broke him, leaving him a ghost of a man. Out of necessity, he left...

Reducere. From romance and robberies to cowboys and Indians, the Old West is filled with phenomenal happenings, mysteries, and ghosts thatare sire tosend a c...

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

Reducere. The shiny new charter fishing boat financed with family money was supposed to launch a bright new career for Cape Cod fisherman, diver, and private...

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

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...

Reducere. Illuminating the dark side of the American century, The Monster Show uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great socia...

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

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

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. "Sentimental, heartfelt .the exploration of Henry s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A t...

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