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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 452 pages ; 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of the life of Cold War pianist Van Cliburn describes his early years as a musical prodigy in Texas and the ways he charmed both American and Russian audiences, helping to ease tensions between the two nations. --Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping history of the NSA and its codebreaking achievements from World War II through the Cold War shares insights into the challenges faced by cryptanalysts and their role in some of the most complicated events of the twentieth century,"--NoveList.
Author
Language
English
Description
On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the USSR was officially no more and the USA had emerged as the world's sole superpower. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents a page-turning account of the preceding five months of drama, filled with failed coups d'etat and political intrigue. Honing in on this previously disregarded but crucial period and using recently declassified documents...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 586 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did that happen? What caused the cold war in the first place, and why did it last as long as it did?
The distinguished historian Melvyn P. Leffler homes in on four crucial episodes when American and Soviet leaders considered modulating, avoiding, or ending...
7) Victory: the Reagan administration's secret strategy that hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 284 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"1983. The US nuclear submarine USS Roanoke embarks on a classified spy mission into Soviet waters. Their goal: to find evidence of a new, faster, and deadlier Soviet submarine that could tip the balance of the Cold War. But the Roanoke crew isn't alone. Something is on board with them--something cunning and malevolent"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 87
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
"The Cold War dominated international life from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall. But how did the dispute begin, and why did it move from its origins in post-war Europe to encompass virtually every corner of the globe? Robert J. McMahon considers these questions and more, providing a truly international history of the Cold War and examining its enduring legacy. He draws on the most recent scholarship and documents to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States, whose goal was to infiltrate American intelligence and steal the nation's military and atomic secrets. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lamphere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet agents and protect the Holy Grail...
12) K blows top: a Cold War comic interlude starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's most unlikely tourist
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 327 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America against the backdrop of the Cold War and a capitalist America living under the shadow of the hydrogen bomb.
Author
Language
English
Description
"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
viii, 353 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Imagines an alternate-history World War II in which the United States fatefully takes Churchill and Patton's controversial advice to invade Berlin to prevent Stalin's expansion into Europe.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 593 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An in-depth and masterful account of how Ronald Reagan's foreign policy "team of rivals" ended the Cold War and laid the foundation for the twenty-first century. Today, the ending of the Cold War seems a foregone conclusion. But in the early 1980s, U.S. intelligence predicted the Soviet Union would last another century. Ronald Reagan entered the White House with no certainty of what would happen next, only an overriding faith in American democracy...
Author
Series
Hot war volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments: One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. In his astounding new series, the unthinkable has come to pass. The Cold War turns hot--and the United States and the Soviet Union unleash their nuclear arsenals upon each other. Millions die. Millions more are displaced. Germans battle side by side with Americans, Polish freedom fighters next to Russian fascists. The...
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