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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...
4) 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
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
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
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,...
9) 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
Formats
Description
Marti Peterson spent her thirty-year career in the Central Intelligence Agency as an operations officer, earning both the prestigious Donovan Award and the George W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism. She began professional service on the CIA's front line in Moscow, USSR, during the Cold War. Her contribution to her country originated in Pakse, Laos, during the Vietnam War, where she accompanied her husband , John, a CIA Paramilitary officer....
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
"While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment,...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxv, 579 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on a new documents and interviews, this work is a look at the Berlin Crisis of 1961, with powerful applications for the present. In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called it "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping the Cold War, and more perilous. For the first time in history, American and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
594 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Butler explores for the first time the complex partnership during World War II between FDR and Stalin, reassessing in-depth how the two men became partners, how they shared the same outlook for the postwar world, and how they formed an uneasy but deep friendship, shaping the world's political stage from the war to the decades leading up to and into the new century.
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