Many who lived during the Cold War asked the question of the V-force nuclear deterrent: ‘If the balloon had gone up, would it have got through?’ This book, written by an Air Electronics Officer with some 4,500 flying hours in Avro Vulcans, sets out t...Loe edasi...
On 16 July 1945, the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds. While the threat of mutually assured destruction kept a lid on a...Loe edasi...
The riveting story of the ring of spies known as the Cambridge Five, who infiltrated the highest levels of the British establishment and helped Stalin cement a half century of Soviet domination over Eastern Europe The Cambridge Five w...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds du...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the now considerable interest in the concept of cultural cold war as a means of advancing ideologies. It will appeal to academics, postgraduate researchers, advanced undergraduates, and others interested in recent international h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008644833)
The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man Vasili Mitrokhin turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to th...Loe edasi...
Kawasaki, Sakade, Zimmerman, and their contributors examine the historical development of burden-sharing among the US and its allies after the Second World War, looking at examples from Western Europe and East Asia....Loe edasi...
Sari: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299356101)
Between 1946 and 1948, roughly 5,000 ethnic Italians from the northern Adriatic shipbuilding town of Monfalcone relocated to the newly communist Yugoslavia. This rare case of eastward Cold War migration demonstrates how ordinary people conceived of l...Loe edasi...
The conquest of the stratosphere was one of the most dramatic and ambitious goals of early twentieth-century aviation. While Western efforts to push ever higher into the thin air above 10,000 metres are relatively well known, Soviet projects in this...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501786990)
Playing the Game uncovers the history of state and regional colleges as engines of opportunity in postwar America. By 1970, these institutions enrolled more students than elite private or flagship public universities did, and yet they remained on th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198917007)
Based on 8,000 newly declassified files, Fakers reveals the rise and fall of the mavericks running Britains Cold War forgery empire. Their secret mission was audacious: to disrupt and discredit adversaries across the world using phantom gro...Loe edasi...
First published in 1988, Science, Politics and the Cold War is a history of the cold-war era that demonstrates the extent to which science and scientists have been implicated in every aspect of the political process.The book discusse...Loe edasi...
Introducing Yugoslavia (1954) looks at the racial and historic chequer-board of 1950s Yugoslavia, providing a fascinating insight into the social and cultural aspects of a land that few Westerners visited at the time. Avoiding politics, it...Loe edasi...
In the early 1950s, Iranian oil became a firebomb of the Cold War in the Middle East, creating one of the eras two major hot spots alongside Korea. This book examines the events surrounding Mossadegh whose government unanimously passed legislatio...Loe edasi...
Sari: Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625349491)
A gripping history of FBI surveillance, political repression, and the fight for Puerto Rican independence In the 1940s, with the construction of a naval base and a bombing range, Puerto Rico became a major geo-political military outp...Loe edasi...
