Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 books

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Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II

Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after...

Author: Erin Lee Mock
ISBN: 9780813950952
Format: Paperback
$104.28

Engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic...  Read More >>

Armoured Vehicles of the Gulf War

Armoured Vehicles of the Gulf War

Author: David Reynolds
ISBN: 9781802828696
Format: Paperback
$43.96

The Gulf War (1990–91) was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States. It...  Read More >>

Capturing Skunk Alpha: A Barrio Sailor's Journey in Vietnam

Capturing Skunk Alpha: A Barrio Sailor's Journey in...

Author: Raúl Herrera ,  John E. O'Neill
ISBN: 9781682831731
Format: Paperback
$73.79

One deckhand’s memoir of swift boat life in Vietnam.  Read More >>

Post-World War One Plebiscites and Their Legacies: Exploring the Right of Self-Determination

Post-World War One Plebiscites and Their Legacies: Exploring...

Author: Sergiusz Bober (European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI))
ISBN: 9789633866108
Format: Hardback
$199.24

Plebiscites, or referendums, are epitomes of direct democracy and the right of self-determination. While direct...  Read More >>

Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II

Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after...

Author: Erin Lee Mock
ISBN: 9780813950945
Format: Hardback
$303.60

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The Kremlin's Confidant: How a British Naval Officer Suspended the Cold War

The Kremlin's Confidant: How a British Naval Officer...

Author: David S. Tonge
ISBN: 9781399059381
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Martin Packard is an extraordinary man who has led an extraordinary life. An idealist and a man of liberal instincts,...  Read More >>

People’S Liberation Army Surface-to-Air Missile Forces: Current Strategy, Structure and Systems

People’S Liberation Army Surface-to-Air Missile Forces:...

Author: Marko Majerski
ISBN: 9781950394111
Format: Hardback
$255.00

This book analyses the capabilities of the People's Republic of China's surface-to-air missile (SAM) units. It lists...  Read More >>

The Swans of Harlem: Fifty years of sisterhood, five black ballerinas, one incredible story

The Swans of Harlem: Fifty years of sisterhood, five...

Author: Karen Valby
ISBN: 9781786582508
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The story of the groundbreaking Dance Theatre of Harlem, established by the first Black principal of the NYC Ballet,...  Read More >>

Bringing Davy Home: In the Shadow of War, a Soldier's Daughter Remembers

Bringing Davy Home: In the Shadow of War, a Soldier's...

Author: Sherri Steward-Ganz ,  Larry C. Kinard
ISBN: 9781648432088
Format: Hardback
$97.55

Chronicles the brutal combat experiences of two small-town Texas boys. One, an underage soldier, was killed in action...  Read More >>

The Berlin Airlift: The First Battle of the Cold War

The Berlin Airlift: The First Battle of the Cold War...

Author: Andrew D Bird
ISBN: 9781526711014
Format: Hardback
$75.00

It was a time of high drama. The tension mounting with each passing day, with each new restriction, each demonstration...  Read More >>

Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia: Sovereignty, State Building and the Chinese in the Philippines

Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia: Sovereignty,...

Author: Pak Nung Wong
ISBN: 9780755655830
Format: Paperback
$59.99

In 'Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia', an historically aware ethnography of the region and the first...  Read More >>

The Dhofar War: British Covert Campaigning in Arabia 1965-1975

The Dhofar War: British Covert Campaigning in Arabia...

Author: Stephen Quick
ISBN: 9781804130988
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Between 1965 and 1975, Britain discreetly supported the Sultanate of Oman in achieving a historic Cold War-era counterinsurgency...  Read More >>

Screen Workers and the Irish Film Industry

Screen Workers and the Irish Film Industry

Author: Denis Murphy
ISBN: 9781802075953
Format: Hardback
$284.63

The book therefore highlights the vital contribution of film and television workers to screen policy and labour...  Read More >>

Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967

Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949-1967

Author: Orit Rozin (Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University)
ISBN: 9780198890348
Format: Hardback
$191.95

The book portrays the security challenges Israelis faced during the state's first two decades of independence from...  Read More >>

Towards a Ceasefire in Kashmir: British Official Reports from South Asia, 18 September – 31 December 1948

Towards a Ceasefire in Kashmir: British Official Reports...

Author: Lionel Carter
ISBN: 9781032653235
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Army Combat Medics in the Vietnam War: Nine Personal Accounts

Army Combat Medics in the Vietnam War: Nine Personal...

Author: Harry Spiller
ISBN: 9781476694252
Format: Paperback
$50.60

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Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China

Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao...

Author: Kenneth G. Lieberthal ,  David M. Lampton
ISBN: 9780520414006
Format: Hardback
$250.80

"Using a model of ""fragmented authoritarianism,"" this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese...  Read More >>

Operation Allied Force 1999: NATO's airpower victory in Kosovo

Operation Allied Force 1999: NATO's airpower victory...

Author: Dr Brian D. Laslie ,  Adam Tooby
ISBN: 9781472860309
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980

The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry...

Author: Aaron Shkuda
ISBN: 9780226833415
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A groundbreaking look at the transformation of SoHo. American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the...  Read More >>

Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy

Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in...

Author: Andrea Benvenuti
ISBN: 9781911723189
Format: Hardback
$175.00

The history of an Indian vision for Asian peace, driven by the energy of Prime Minister Nehru and the pressures...  Read More >>

Seven Days to the Funeral

Seven Days to the Funeral

Author: Ján Rozner ,  Julia Sherwood
ISBN: 9788024656335
Format: Paperback
$37.95

A dissident's deeply personal and unflinching view of Soviet oppression in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the 1968...  Read More >>

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