The Cold War, Paperback

The Cold War examines the complex arguments which divided East and West following the Second World war, and analyses its eight major phases from th...

Reducere. A team of leading scholars examines the evolution of the Cold War from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 to the Soviet collapse in 1991. The authors ...

With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin ascendent, U.S. officials set out to reconstruct Western Europe as a bulwark against communist authorit...

Reducere. The Clever Teens' Guide to the Cold War: The perfect guide for background reading or revision. From the end of World War Two to the collapse of the...

Charting the rise and fall of almost fifty years of global confrontation, this book highlights the impact of the Cold War on the culture of the tim...

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they sh...

DescriptionThis is a very British story from more than 50 years ago. It is a story of remarkable technological ambition from a different country th...

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. Revisiting an influential Cold War-era art competitionIn 1952 the ICA London organized an international competition around the theme of "The Unknow...

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

A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Peter E. DaviesNumber of pages: 96Collection: Combat AircraftPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 185 x...

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. With Guatemala as the case study, this title ar...

Russia, once seen as America's greatest adversary, is now viewed by the United States as a potential partner. This book traces the evolution of Ame...

Reducere. From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo how a group of brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives developed breakthrough spy tactic...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jian ChenThis comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the ori...

Reducere. Competitive authoritarian regimes in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse proliferated ...

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...

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A treatment of cinema's long and fraught relations with the monstrous symbols of Soviet communism

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

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...

Reducere. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...

Reducere. Volume Two of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War into a long-lasting international system durin...

Reducere. This volume examines the origins, causes and early years of the Cold War. Leading scholars show how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ide...

The Human Factor tells the dramatic story about the part played by political leaders - particularly the three very different personalities of Gorba...

Reducere. Since the end of the Cold War the United States and other major powers have wielded their air forces against much weaker state and non-state actors...

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...

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...

The first study of Israeli foreign policy towards the Middle East and selected world powers, including China, India, the European Union and the US ...

Reducere. Freedom fighters. Guerrilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this ...

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

A true Cold War espionage thriller set in the ultra-secret Berlin Tunnel - where British officer George Blake must run a high-stakes double cross t...

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...

An interpretation of the political and cultural history of the early cold war years. The author argues that art is part of the general culture, not...

In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document "the bas...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Covering 2000 years - from Roman times through the Cold War - this book describes the evolution of military architecture in the territory today kno...

Reducere. DescriptionLee O'Connor explores the fascinating subject of Spokane's backyard bunkers, basement hideaways, and public fallout shelters, in this bo...

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

Reducere. From the author of the Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated Argo, a true-life thriller set against the backdrop of the Cold War, which unveils t...

Drawing on interviews with former NATO ambassadors, alliance military leaders, and senior NATO officials, the author shows that these leaders playe...

Reducere. To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world...

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...

Successfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace. This bespoke series from the leading History publisher follows our proven ...

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...

In this ground-breaking and fascinating book, Duncan White illuminates a period in history in which literature became one of the most potent of wea...

DescriptionGrace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the tw...

James Lockhart blends Chilean, inter-American and transatlantic national, regional and world-historical trends into a century-long Cold War narrati...

Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrog...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Paschalis (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) PechlivanisNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2020Dime...

In this magisterial and groundbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's internationa...

Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA's covert battles aga...

Uncover the story behind the death of renowned diplomat and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld in this true story of spies and intrigue surround...

Martin Walker's account of over forty years of global confrontation between the US and Russia is a masterly narrative of the Cold War's twists and ...

DescriptionAboard a notorious criminal syndicate's luxurious starliner, Commonwealth operative Simon Kovalic and his crew race to steal a mysteriou...

In the dying days of the USSR, battlelines have shifted from spycraft to the cut-throat capitalism and it's intellectual property, not state secret...

In this thought-provoking and alarming book, veteran China specialist and foreign correspondent Ian Williams examines how China's aggressive foreig...

Understand the Cold War provides a fascinating insight into this complicated and hidden conflict, from how it began and the main figures involved t...

In 1961, Charles Gallagher graduated from the Naval Academy at the age of 20. Little did he know that after his first ship completed a Mediterranea...

Pilar Rivera is a beautiful young woman who emerged from the Cuban Revolution as one of the elite assassins Fidel Castro used to stay in power. Pil...

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...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Eugene B. (Director and Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) RumerNumber of pages: 248C...

In The Politics of Taste Ana Mar a Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz Gonz lez and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who ch...

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...

Looking back to the evolution of foreign aid during the Cold War, David C. Engerman invites us to recognize the strategic thinking at the heart of ...