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To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power

To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global...

Author: Sergey Radchenko (Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe)
ISBN: 9781108477352
Format: Hardback
$77.63

What would it feel like To Run the World? Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. Perennial...  Read More >>

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 >>

The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century

The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th...

Author: Barbara Emerson
ISBN: 9781805260578
Format: Hardback
$67.99

A comprehensive history of Russo-British relations at the height of the imperial age, from Peter the Great to the...  Read More >>

Charting America's Cold War Waters in East Asia: Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security

Charting America's Cold War Waters in East Asia: Sovereignty,...

Author: Kuan-Jen Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
ISBN: 9781009418751
Format: Hardback
$124.17

This book helps us comprehend the shifting political contours in postwar East Asia from a maritime perspective....  Read More >>

The ČZ Models 50 and 70: Czech Cold War Police Pistols

The ČZ Models 50 and 70: Czech Cold War Police Pistols...

Author: James D. Brown
ISBN: 9780764367922
Format: Hardback
$99.00

A detailed, illustrated guide to the Czech vz. 50 police pistol and the modernized vz. 70 version  Read More >>

NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative: A Transatlantic History of the Star Wars Programme

NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative: A Transatlantic...

Author: Luc-André Brunet (The Open University)
ISBN: 9780367617509
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores the largely neglected issue of responses to the US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI, or the...  Read More >>

Western Corporations and Covert Operations in the early Cold War: Re-examining the Vogeler/Sanders Case

Western Corporations and Covert Operations in the early...

Author: Margaret Murányi Manchester (Providence College, USA)
ISBN: 9781032253862
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the Vogeler/Sanders espionage case that ruptured ties between the US and UK and Hungary in 1949,...  Read More >>

Technological Innovation, Globalization and the Cold War: A Transnational History

Technological Innovation, Globalization and the Cold...

Author: Wolfgang Mueller (University of Vienna) ,  Peter Svik (University of Vienna)
ISBN: 9781032308685
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume focuses on the interconnections between the Cold War, technological innovation and globalization.  Read More >>

Stalin Era Intellectuals: Culture and Stalinism

Stalin Era Intellectuals: Culture and Stalinism

Author: Vesa Oittinen (University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland.) ,  Elina Viljanen (University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, Finland.)
ISBN: 9781032114217
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book focuses on the extent to which Soviet scholars and cultural theoreticians were able to act autonomously...  Read More >>

Musealisation of Communism in Poland and East Central Europe

Musealisation of Communism in Poland and East Central...

Author: Barbara Klich-Kluczewska ,  Anna Ziębińska Witek
ISBN: 9783631894125
Format: Hardback
$179.39

Comparative studies on the exhibitions of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The conclusions contained in...  Read More >>

U-2 ‘Dragon Lady’ Units 1955–90

U-2 ‘Dragon Lady’ Units 1955–90

Author: Peter E. Davies ,  Gareth Hector
ISBN: 9781472861689
Format: Paperback
$34.99

An illustrated account of the early service of the Lockheed U-2, one of the most important and longest-serving intelligence...  Read More >>

Die Stunde des Kommunismus

Die Stunde des Kommunismus

Author: Andreas Wirsching
ISBN: 9783111382272
Format: Paperback
$17.84

Communism was one of the most significant political and social movements of the twentieth century, but also exhibited...  Read More >>

Vietnam and the Cold War 1945-1954: French Imperial Decline and Defeat at Dien Bien Phu

Vietnam and the Cold War 1945-1954: French Imperial...

Author: John Pike
ISBN: 9781526789297
Format: Hardback
$75.00

A forensic study of war, imperial history and international relations, following the Second World War and leading...  Read More >>

Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War

Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the...

Author: Simon Miles
ISBN: 9781501776069
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"""This book is about the beginning of the end of the Cold War between 1980 and 1985. The key shift that allowed...  Read More >>

Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas

Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas

Author: Sangjoon Lee ,  Darlene Espena
ISBN: 9789463727273
Format: Hardback
$390.72

This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political,...  Read More >>

Tripped: Nazi Germany, the Cia, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

Tripped: Nazi Germany, the Cia, and the Dawn of the...

Author: Norman Ohler ,  Marshall Yarbrough
ISBN: 9780358646501
Format: Hardback
$79.17

A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into...  Read More >>

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World...

Author: David Van Reybrouck
ISBN: 9781324073697
Format: Hardback
$85.80

From the internationally best-selling writer, a masterful account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonization...  Read More >>

The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Washington, and the Non-Aligned Movement

The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Washington,...

Author: Jonathan C. Brown
ISBN: 9780822948070
Format: Hardback
$145.20

The Weak and the Powerful studies how a weak country negotiated the Cold War and how a strongman navigated between...  Read More >>

The CIA: An Imperial History

The CIA: An Imperial History

Author: Hugh Wilford
ISBN: 9781541645912
Format: Hardback
$84.48

A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but...  Read More >>

Work and Labor in American Popular Culture: Representation in Film, Music and Television in the 1970s and 1980s

Work and Labor in American Popular Culture: Representation...

Author: Jason Russell
ISBN: 9781032470955
Format: Hardback
$103.00

Focusing on these two key decades, this book explores how portrayals of social class and associated work and labor...  Read More >>

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