The Cold War: A World History, Hardcover

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: George H. NashHerbert Hoover's "magnum opus"--at last published nearly fifty years after its completion--offers a revisioni...

Reducere. By the close of World War II, Long Island had transformed from a rural corridor to a suburban behemoth. The region became a nationally recognized m...

Reducere. Explore the Cold War and Get a Deeper Understanding of the Korean and Vietnam WarTwo captivating manuscripts in one book: Korean War: A Captivating...

Reducere. The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affect...

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

Reducere. For nearly a half century, from 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union maneuvered to achieve global hegemony. Each forged political a...

DescriptionThe complete and illustrated history of Russia's armed forces from the Russian Revolution until the present day, covering both their inv...

King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of its release in 1964. The duck-and-cover generatio...

In June 1941 a pair of British scientists boarded a plane for America with World War II raging all around them. They carried a precious commodity--...

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The Kennedys in the World tells a new, rich, fascinating, and consequential story about Jack, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy. From an early age the brother...

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Reducere. The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in American global hegemony in world affairs. In the post-Cold War period, both Democrat and Republican go...

Description"Mark Obmascik has deftly rescued an important story from the margins of our history--and from our country's most forbidding frontier. D...

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Description Established in 1955, the Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival became a central arena for staging the cultural politics of th...

A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer las...

Reducere. From its establishment during World War I to its closure at the end of the Cold War, the Army installation best known as Fort Ord made a significan...

Rising from the ashes of the Pearl Harbor attack, Barbers Point Naval Air Station would become a major staging point for US Navy aircraft for the w...

Reducere. Raytheon's history is one of the great American success stories. Launched in 1922, the Cambridge-based company quickly moved to the forefront of in...

Some twenty-five years after its conclusion, yet with its echoes resonating once more in contemporary East-West relations, the rigors and detail of...

Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War II to try the former Nazi leaders for war crimes, the Nuremberg trials, known as the Internationa...

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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Russia, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: Russian History: A Captiva...

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. 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. Miami architecture is world renowned, but many historic treasures have been forgotten. The Richmond Naval Air Station was a blimp base destroyed by...

Reducere. As the US Navy recovered from the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the aircraft carrier earned a place alongside the battleship, and the Navy gr...

About the AuthorDon Troiani is well known for his extremely accurate historical and military paintings, scenes of great characters and grand action...

From its founding in 1927 until the establishment of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1948, Wright Field played a vital role keeping the Army Air...

Reducere. One of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring raid on German dam...

The generation of young men and women who joined the British Army during the mid to late 1980s would serve their country during an unprecedented pe...

Reducere. The first career-spanning volume of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, featuring comic art from World War II, Kor...

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DescriptionA US Naval Aviator's odyssey through pivotal moments in 20th-century history The rise of Adolf Hitler, America's Great Depression in the...

Reducere. DescriptionBorn from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some seventy ye...

National Jewish Book AwardIn Israel and the West it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Se...

Reducere. Korea was "discovered" by the West after World War II when it became a flashpoint in the Cold War. Before the war, however, it was home to many hun...

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In this definitive history, William R. Keylor traces the tumultuous relationship between Charles de Gaulle and a host of other key twentieth-centur...

Reducere. A sweeping history of the passionate men and women in uniform who have bravely and courageously exercised the power of dissent Before the U.S. Cons...

Reducere. Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower-a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. ...

In their history of Cornell since 1940, Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick examine the institution in the context of the emergence of the moder...

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Ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and James Baker, America in the World t...

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Reducere. Compared to armies and navies, which have existed as professional fighting services for centuries, the technology that makes air forces possible is...

DescriptionA colorfully illustrated, pocket-size picture book biography about John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States.John F. Kennedy ...

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A "highly readable and compelling" account (Science) of brainwashing's pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries "A fascinating ac...

DescriptionNo nation was more deeply affected by America's rise to world power than Japan. President Franklin Roosevelt's uncompromising policy of ...

Scotland has had a uniquely important military history over the last five centuries. Conflict with England in the 16th century, Jacobite rebellions...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography comes a sweeping yet intimate story of the most influential humanitarian you...

Part murder mystery, part social history of political violence, Lethal Provocation is a forensic examination of the deadliest peacetime episode of ...

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

DescriptionMore than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the world's largest oceanscape prior to the California gold rush...

Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material,...

DescriptionThe Second World War is drawing to a close, but the world is far from safe. Left to fend for themselves, women and children are forced o...

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For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. How else to explain its having taken two such diffe...

Reducere. From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, a masterwork of explanatory journalism that exposes how billionaires' systematic plunder ...

For more than a hundred years, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest military power on the planet. But after the fragmentation of the all...

An exhilarating dive into the secret history of humankind's race to the moon, from acclaimed author Amy Cherrix. This fascinating and immersive rea...

Reducere. Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right?...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why ...