Cold wars and proxy conflicts Books
Little, Brown Book Group Cold Warriors Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold
Book Synopsis''White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose will have you hooked all the way from Orwell to le Carré'' Sunday Times, Books of the Year''Cold Warriors reads like a thriller . . . ambitious, intelligent, searching history'' The TimesIn this age of 24-hour news coverage, where rallying cries are made on Twitter and wars are waged in cyberspace as much as on the ground, the idea of a novel as a weapon that can wield any power feels almost preposterous. The Cold War was a time when destruction was merely the press of a button away, but when the real battle between East and West was over the minds and hearts of their people. In this arena the pen really was mightier than the sword. This is a gripping, richly-populated history of spies and journalists, protest and propaganda, idealism and betrTrade ReviewAbsorbing . . . Cold Warriors reads like a thriller . . . However, this is also a book about personal and political liberty; about the freedom to write, mock and dissent; about truth, lies and wilful ignorance . . . [an] ambitious, intelligent, searching history -- Laura Freeman * The Times *A breezily readable group biography . . . raises some haunting questions -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *[A] compulsive read . . . properly cinematic, full of clandestine cross-border flights, double-crossings, arrests, internments and interrogations . . . history has rarely seemed as compelling, and as pertinent, as through the lens of White's journey through this icy age -- Peter Murphy * Irish Times *Duncan White's fascinating new book on the role of literature in the Cold War . . . It frequently grips like a thriller, even in the sections in which White is dealing with intellectual ideas rather than blackmail and violence -- Jake Kerridge * Sunday Telegraph *Brilliant * Choice *Both profound and profoundly important and as engaging as a gripping Cold War thriller * Kirkus *Consistently absorbing * Wall Street Journal *[White's] research is impressive, presented in crisp, efficient prose with an eye for the encapsulating detail . . . Cold Warriors fascinates * Spectator *White guides us expertly through the tangled terrain of the literary Cold War * Literary Review *Cold Warriors is itself written in the style of a spy thriller, echoing and invoking the countless page-turners the clash of ideologies inspired . . . the assembling and stitching together of so many competing narratives is so skilfully done . . . an important book * Times Literary Supplement *Cold Warriors is a formidable, engrossing and almost flawless achievement * Sydney Morning Herald *White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose will have you hooked all the way from Orwell to le Carré * Sunday Times *White has a sharp eye for the telling anecdote - for the absurd as well as the fearful -- John Mullan * Guardian *Deft and wide-ranging * Prospect *
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Taylor & Francis Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War
Book SynopsisIn mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims across the Iron Curtain to neighboring Turkey. It was the single largest ethnic cleansing during the Cold War in Europe after the wrapping up of the postwar expulsions (âpopulation transfersâ) of ethnic Germans from Central Europe in the latter half of the 1940s. Furthermore, this expulsion of Turks and Muslims from Bulgaria was the sole unilateral act of ethnic cleansing that breached the Iron Curtain. The 1989 ethnic cleansing was followed by an unprecedented return of almost half of the expellees, after the collapse of the Bulgarian communist regime. The return, which partially reversed the effects of this ethnic cleansing, was the first-ever of its kind in history. Despite the unprecedented character of this 1989 expulsion and the subsequent return, not a single research article, let alone a monograph, has been devoted to these momentTrade Review"Kamusella shows the way for a future Bulgaria. The recognition of ethnic cleansing is important not only in terms of historical justice and responsibility but also for the future transformation of Bulgaria into a country attractive for immigrants" - Vasil Paraskevov, Konstantin Preslavsky University, Bulgaria, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations, and of the Names of Parties and Organizations Mentioned; The Bulgarian Governments During and After the Removal of Todor Zhivkov from Office; The Heads of State of Bulgaria During and After the Removal of Todor Zhivkov from Office; Introduction; 1. On Forgetfulness and Its Perils; 2. The State of Research on the 1989 Expulsion; 3.The 1989 Ethnic Cleansing Through the Lens of the International Press; 4. The Ethnic Cleansing’s Aftermath and the Regime Change; 5. The Official Coming to Terms with the 1989 Ethnic Cleansing; 6. Between Language and Millet; 7. The Question of Responsibility; Conclusion; Postscriptum; Bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cold War Cities
Book SynopsisThis book examines the impact of the Cold War in a global context and focuses on city-scale reactions to the atomic warfare. It explores urbanism as a weapon to combat the dangers of the communist intrusion into the American territories and promote living standards for the urban poor in the US cities.The Cold War saw the birth of atomic urbanisation', central to which were planning, politics and cultural practices of the newly emerged cities. This book examines cities in the Arctic, Europe, Asia and Australasia in detail to reveal how military, political, resistance and cultural practices impacted on the spaces of everyday life. It probes questions of city planning and development, such as: How did the threat of nuclear war affect planning at a range of geographic scales? What were the patterns of the built environment, architectural forms and material aesthetics of atomic urbanism in difference places? And, how did the Bomb' manifest itself in civic governance, popular mediaTable of ContentsCold War Cities: Spatial Planning, Social and Political Processes, and Cultural Practices in the Age of Atomic Urbanism, 1945-1965 Part 1: Planning the Cold War City 1. Properties of Science: How Industrial Research and the Suburbs Reshaped Each Other in Cold-War Pittsburgh 2. The City of Bristol: Ground Zero in the Making 3. Towards a Prosperous Future Through Cold War Planning: Stalinist Urban Design in the Industrial Towns of Sillamäe and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia 4. Nuclear Anxiety in Postwar Japan’s City of the Future Visual Essay: Urbanism of Fear: A Tale of Two Chinese Cold War Cities Part 2: Building the Cold War City 5. The Warsaw Metro and the Warsaw Pact: From Deep Cover to Cut-and-Cover 6. Competing Militarisation and Urban Development During the Cold War: How a Soviet Air Base Came to Dominate Tartu, Estonia 7. In-Between the East and the West: Architecture and Urban Planning in ‘Non-Aligned’ Skopje 8. Atomic Urbanism Under Greenland’s Ice Cap: Camp Century and Cold War Architectural Imagination Visual Essay: Warfare or Welfare? Civil Defence and Emergency Planning in Danish Urban Welfare Architecture Part 3: Culture and Politics in the Cold War City 9. Urban Space, Public Protest, and Nuclear Weapons in Early Cold War Sydney 10. In the Middle of the Atomic Arena: Visible and Invisible NATO Sites in Verona During the Nineteen Fifties 11. Conceiving the Atomic Bomb Threat Between West and East: Mobilisation, Representation and Perception Against the A-bomb in 1950s Red Bologna 12. Making a ‘Free World’ City: Urban Space and Social Order in Cold War Bangkok Visual Essay: Cold War Telecommunication and Urban Vulnerability – Underground Exchange and Microwave Tower in Manchester
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Tourism and Travel during the Cold War
Book SynopsisThe Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various levels throughout the Cold War. This book explores how the European tourist industry transcended the ideological fault lines and the communist states attracted an ever-increasing number of Western tourists.Table of ContentsCrossing the Iron Curtain: An introduction; Part I: Organising Western tourism in the East; 1. Exporting holidays: Bulgarian international tourism on the Scandinavian market in the 1960s and 1970s; 2. The lure of capitalism: Foreign tourists and the shadow economy in Romania, 1960–1989; 3. Experiencing communism, bolstering capitalism: Guided bus tours of 1970s East Berlin; Part II: Encounters; 4. The Artek camp for Young Pioneers and the many faces of socialist internationalism; 5. Foreign tourists, domestic encounters: Human rights travel to Soviet Jewish homes; 6. "Much more freedom of thought than expected there": Rosey E. Pool, a Dutch fellow traveller on holiday in the Soviet Union (1965); 7. The Stalinist utopia of the Adriatic: Swedish tourists in communist Albania; Part III: The politics of tourism during the Cold War; 8. Playing the tourism card: Yugoslavia, advertising, and the Euro-Atlantic tourism network in the early Cold War; 9. Making Iron Curtain overflights legal: Soviet–Scandinavian aviation negotiations in the early Cold War; 10. Concluding remarks: Tourism across a porous curtain
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WW Norton & Co The Picnic
Book SynopsisThe gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world.
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Cornerstone The New Yorker Book of the 60s
Book SynopsisThe next instalment in the acclaimed New Yorker ''decades'' series featuring an all-star line-up of historical pieces from the 1960s alongside new pieces by current New Yorker staffers.The 1960s, the most tumultuous decade of the twentieth century, were a time of tectonic shifts in all aspects of society from the March on Washington and the Second Vatican Council to the Summer of Love and Woodstock. No magazine chronicled the immense changes of the period better than The New Yorker. This capacious volume includes historic pieces from the magazine's pages that brilliantly capture the sixties, set alongside new assessments by some of today's finest writers.Here are real-time accounts of these years of turmoil: Calvin Trillin reports on the integration of Southern universities, E. B. White and John Updike wrestle with the enormity of the Kennedy assassination and Jonathan Schell travels with American troops into the jungles of Vietnam. The mTrade ReviewThe selections on display here certainly warrant the praise. As in previous volumes, the contributor list is an embarrassment of riches: Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Calvin Trillin, E.B. White, John Updike, Renata Adler, Sylvia Plath, and John McPhee, among other top names ... Bring on the '70s. * Kirkus Reviews *This book has something for even the most curmudgeonly intellectual * Red Online *
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The University of Michigan Press Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex
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The University of Michigan Press Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex
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The University of Michigan Press Envisioning Socialism
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University of California Press Film Criticism the Cold War and the Blacklist
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fresh view, if not always of the films, then of the way critics and scholars have shaped discussions over time." The Arts Fuse "Smith is in his element when unearthing subtext ... His readings have a richness of their own." -- Bernard F. Dick American Studies "Excellent... comprehensive." Journal of American CultureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: What More Can Be Said about the Hollywood Blacklist? 1. A Bifocal View of Hollywood during the Blacklist Period: Film as Propaganda and Allegory 2. I Was a Communist for RKO: Hollywood Anti-Communism and the Problem of Representing Political Beliefs 3. Reds and Blacks: Representing Race in Anti-Communist Films 4. Stoolies, Cheese-Eaters, and Tie Sellers: Genre, Allegory, and the HUAC Informer 5. The Cross and the Sickle: Allegorical Representations of the Blacklist in Historical Films 6. Roaming the Plains along the "New Frontier": The Western as Allegory of the Blacklist and the Cold War 7. Loving the Alien: Science Fiction Cinema as Cold War Allegory Conclusion: Old Wounds and the Texas Sharpshooter Notes Bibliography Index
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HarperCollins When They Come for Us Well be Gone
Book SynopsisAt the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. They lived a paradox - unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. This title tells the story of their rescue.
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Spymaster The Life of Britains Most Decorated
Book Synopsis'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief'Richard Davenport-Hines, The SpectatorSir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era.Trade ReviewAn exemplary biography... it is full of perceptive intimacies and plenty of tradecraft, subterfuge, deception and revelation. I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief. -- Richard Davenport-Hines * The Spectator *a frank and clear-eyed, if affectionate, biography of a great public servant, cruelly traduced -- Matthew Parris * Spectator, Books of the Year 2016 *An intriguing portrait of a brilliant man * Mail on Sunday *Gripping and candid. * The Times *A welcome biography of a man able to combine warm family and personal relationships with hard-headed intellectual analysis, taking the cold decisions needed to succeed in the most unaccountable and secret of government agencies. -- Richard Norton-Taylor * Guardian *[Maurice Oldfield] was the first professional intelligence officer to make it all the way to the top and become Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service and he was a seminal figure in the creation of the modern MI6. An invisible legend, but a legend nevertheless. -- Frederick ForsythA lively, readable and delightful portrait of one of the most charming men to emerge from the shadows. * Sunday Telegraph *This is the finest biography of a British Spymaster ever written. From Oldfield’s Derbyshire roots to the peaks and valleys of his MI6 career, the insights are revealing, the judgements are fair and the well-wrought narrative makes a compelling read. This is a marvellous addition to the historical literature of the secret world. -- Jonathan AitkenDenied access to the official files but with the co-operation of former intelligence officers, Oldfield's nephew has produced an immensely enjoyable biography of the most important post-war spy chief of Britain's still very, very secret Secret Intelligence Service, revealing the previously unknown private person and the man who kept the British government informed during the Cold War. -- Stephen Dorril, author of MI6: Fifty Years of Special OperationsA revealing study of this most unlikely of spy chiefs, the clever farmer’s son from Derbyshire who reached the top of the most class-bound of professions. Pearce paints a rounded portrait of an enigmatic personality, but one whose skilful reading of human nature and empathy with colleagues made him a popular ‘Chief’ of the Secret Intelligence Service in the dangerous days of the Cold War. * Roger Hermiston, author of The Greatest Traitor *Fuller and more rounded than previous accounts... Pearce amplifies and clarifies our image of a man who contributed significantly to the national zeal and, arguably, world peace. -- Alan Judd * Literary Review *A fascinating insight into the complex world of a master spy. -- Charles Cumming, author of A Divided Spy
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Transworld Publishers Ltd The Tunnels
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1962, one year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. This book tells their story.Trade ReviewA story with so much inherent drama it sounds far-fetched even for a Hollywood thriller... Mitchell tells a kaleidoscopic cold war story from 1962, recreating a world seemingly on the edge of a third world war. * The Guardian *This book serves as a stark reminder that barriers can never cut people off entirely but only succeed in driving them underground. * New York Times *The Tunnels is one of the great untold stories of the Cold War. Brilliantly researched and told with great flair, Greg Mitchell’s non-fiction narrative reads like the best spy thriller, something le Carre might have imagined. Easily the best book I’ve read all year.Every hour of my year in East Berlin - 1963/64 - the escape tunnels beneath our feet were being dug. This is their story: those who dug them, those who used them and those who betrayed them to the Stasi. Fascinating - and it is all true.A fascinating and complex picture of the interplay between politics and media in the Cold War era. * The Washington Post *I was stunned by the tunnelling exploits detailed by Greg Mitchell. This intricately detailed account was eye-opening and an exhilarating read. Not knowing who made it out of the East, and who was arrested, or worse, kept me glued to this book until the last page. [An] important work. -- Antonio Mendez, author of ArgoAn extraordinarily revealing political thriller... Mitchell presents us with a radically changed perspective on one of the Cold War’s most dramatic episodes. His book is both priceless as history and just about impossible to beat for sheer narrative grip. -- Frederick Taylor, author of The Berlin WallGreg Mitchell's The Tunnels uncovers an unexplored underworld of Cold War intrigue. As nuclear tensions grip Berlin, a whole realm of heroes and villains, of plot and counterplot, unfolds beneath the surface of the city. True historical drama. -- Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and How The End BeginsWhen you have read the last page of Greg Mitchell's The Tunnels you will close the book. But not until then. -- Alan Furst, author of A Hero of France and Night SoldiersGreg Mitchell is the best kind of historian, a true storyteller. The Tunnels is a gripping tale about heroic individuals defying an authoritarian state at a critical moment in the Cold War. A brilliantly told thriller—but all true. -- Kai Bird, author of The Good SpyA compelling look at a wrenching chapter of the Cold War that chronicles the desperate flights for freedom beneath the streets of post-war Berlin and the costs that politics extracted in lives -- Barry Meier, author of Missing ManA riveting story. Mitchell, an exemplary journalist, goes deep into the political dynamics of Cold War Berlin. John Le Carré couldn’t have done it better. -- Bill MoyersA narrative full of interest and acute observation. -- Allan Massie * The Scotsman *Tense, fascinating... Mitchell delivers a gripping, blow-by-blow account. * Publishers Weekly *A gripping page-turner that thrills like fiction. * Kirkus Reviews *One of the most gripping stories of the Cold War. * Omnivoracious - The Amazon Book Review *
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Midnight in Chernobyl
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSuperb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying . . . the accident unfurls with a horrible inevitability. Weaving together the experiences of those who were there that night, Higginbotham marshals the details so meticulously that every step feels spring-loaded with tension. . . . Amid so much rich reporting and scrupulous analysis, some major themes emerge. . . . Higginbotham’s extraordinary book is another advance in the long struggle to fill in some of the gaps, bringing much of what was hidden into the light. * New York Times *An invaluable contribution to history... tells a compelling story exceptionally well. -- Serhii Plokhy * Evening Standard *Reads like a thriller: forensic, compelling and utterly terrifying. * Mail on Sunday *Higginbotham tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with thriller-like flair. Midnight in Chernobyl is wonderful and chilling ... written with skill and passion. A tale of hubris and doomed ambition. * The Observer *Adam Higginbotham uses all of the techniques of the top-notch longform journalist to full effect. He swoops us into the heart of the catastrophe. * The Guardian *
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Transworld Publishers Ltd The Spy who was left out in the Cold
Book SynopsisSpring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West. His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important, yet least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War. Even his death is shrouded in mystery and he has been written out of the history of Cold War espionage - until now. Tim Tate draws on a wealth of previously-unpublished primary source documents to tell the dramatic true story of the best spy the west ever lost - of how Goleniewski exposed hundreds of KGB agents operating undercover in the West; from George Blake and the ''Portland Spy Ring'', to a senior Swedish Air Force and NATO officer and a traitor inside the Israeli government. The information he produced devastated intelligence services on both sides of the Iron Curtain.Bringing together love and loyalty, courage and treachery, betrayal, greed and, ultimately, insanity, Trade ReviewThe larger than life story of one of the West's most productive Cold War counter-intelligence agents - a man who to the CIA's embarrassment turned out also to be a bigamist and a romancer who claimed publicly to be the last descendent of the Russian Czar and heir to his fortune. A made for Hollywood page turner, it's a fascinating read and highly recommended. -- SIR DAVID OMAND, author of How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in IntelligenceTotally gripping . . . a masterpiece. Tate lifts the lid on one of the most important and complex spies of the Cold War, who passed secrets to the West and finally unmasked traitor George Blake. -- HELEN FRY, author of MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War TwoA brilliant and gripping exploration of one of the last great espionage enigmas of the twentieth century. Unputdownable. -- TREVOR BARNES, author of Dead DoublesA wonderful and at times mind-boggling account of a bizarre and almost forgotten spy - right up to the time when he's living undercover in Queens, New York and claiming to be the last of the Romanoffs. -- SIMON KUPER, author of The Happy TraitorA highly readable and thoroughly researched account of one of the Cold War's most intriguing and tragic spy stories. -- OWEN MATTHEWS, author of An Impeccable Spy
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Faber & Faber Edmonds D Bobby Fischer Goes to War
Book SynopsisPERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX''S THE QUEEN''S GAMBIT''Gripping.'' SUNDAY TIMES''Pure drama.''INDEPENDENT''Compelling.''NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one of the most thrilling and politically charged chess matches of all time.For decades, the USSR had dominated world chess. Evidence, according to Moscow, of the superiority of the Soviet system. But in 1972 along came the American, Bobby Fischer: insolent, arrogant, abusive, vain, greedy, vulgar, bigoted, paranoid and obsessive and apparently unstoppable.Against him was Boris Spassky: complex, sensitive, the most un-Soviet of champions. As the authors reveal, when Spassky began to lose, the KGB decided to step in. . .
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Faber & Faber Ten Days in Harlem
Book SynopsisRising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro''s visit to New York.With its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony, Hall's book is a rare pleasure to read.'DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Literary Review''A lively account . . . Ten Days in Harlem doesn''t stint on piquant detail.''LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS''[A] perceptive, thoroughly researched and readable study.''IRISH TIMESNew York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary arrives for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. His visit to the UN represents a golden opportunity to make his mark on the world stage.Fidel's shock arrival in Harlem is met with a rapturous reception from the local African American community. He holds court from the iconic Hotel Theresa as a succession o
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Harvard University Press The Frontline
Book SynopsisThe Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy’s The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present further analysis of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine’s relations with Russia and the West, the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of Chernobyl, and Ukraine’s contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union.Trade ReviewExceptionally illuminating for the current moment…What emerges from some of these essays…is a powerful sense that Putin’s wantonly destructive delusions and machinations have had the unintended effect of helping to consolidate Ukraine as the unified and distinctive nation whose existence he flatly denies. -- Larry Wolff * Times Literary Supplement *This collection is an excellent overview of some of the historical undercurrents which diffused the Ukrainian narrative—from west to east—across Ukraine’s Russified central and southeast oblasts over the past twenty years. Most importantly, these essays shed light on why the overwhelming majority of Ukraine’s citizens adopted this narrative and why they still defiantly resist returning to Russia’s colonial orbit. -- George O. Liber * Russian Review *
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Harvard University Press Elusive Refuge
Book SynopsisLaura Madokoro recovers the lost history of millions of displaced Chinese who fled the Communist Revolution and recounts humanitarian efforts to find homes for them outside China. Entrenched bigotry in predominantly white countries, the spread of human rights, Cold War geopolitics, and the Vietnam War shaped refugee policies that still hold sway.Trade ReviewMadokoro shows that our grasp of the history of refugees is woefully incomplete unless we take proper account of the international response to those who fled mainland China in the wake of the Chinese Revolution. Her beautifully written book also demonstrates how people ‘on the move’ negotiated all manner of constraints. Innovative in conception and execution, Elusive Refuge makes a very significant contribution to our understanding of the modern world’s response to refugees. -- Peter Gatrell, author of The Making of the Modern RefugeeElusive Refuge is pathbreaking in its subject matter. Its interrogation of the history of refugee policy is bold and original, demonstrating the limits of the 1951 Refugee Convention and the consequences of the many shifts—legal, political, and moral—in the meaning of the term ‘refugee.’ Moreover, its concern with asylum seekers, refugees, and immigration policy could not be more timely. An extremely important work. -- Marilyn Lake, coauthor of Drawing the Global Colour Line[Madokoro’s] account is valuable for its details and for its demonstration of how the use of the refugee label has sometimes been apt, sometimes misguided, and almost always shifting and ambiguous in its implications. U.S. readers should brace themselves for a framework that regards the U.S. as only one example of ‘white settler societies,’ but they will thereby gain useful perspective on how the U.S. compares—sometimes favorably and sometimes not—with other countries that have similar English origins and sharp racial categorizations. Madokoro duly notes the enormous progress that has been made in recent decades regarding race, but she remains pained by the long history of rejection of Asians as refugees and as migrants more generally. -- D. W. Haines * Choice *
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Princeton University Press Global Development
Book SynopsisIn this sweeping and incisive work, Lorenzini provides a global history of development, drawing on a wealth of archival evidence to offer a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a Cold War phenomenon that transformed the modern world.Trade Review"[Sara] Lorenzini . . . presents an in-depth analysis of the process of global development based on national and regional archives and published sources. . . . This well-researched and illuminating book is an essential contribution to the history of postwar global development."---D. A. Chekki, Choice"In this impressive history, Lorenzini traces the journey of development thinking from its nineteenth-century origins through its entanglements in the great geopolitical struggles of the twentieth century."---G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs"As the best global intellectual and political history of development available, Lorenzini’s book should become the standard assignment in classes on the history of development. . . . It deserves wide readership."---Nils Gilman, H-Diplo"Lorenzini . . . not interested in praising or denouncing the development enterprise, but rather in historicizing it, considering its origins, how it has changed over time, and how scholars can go about studying it. That alone makes these volumes welcome and timely."---Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Journal of Contemporary History"[A] smart, concise survey of twentieth-century development ideology and practice."---Thomas C. Field Jr., The Middle Ground Journal"Through its ambitious exploration across time and space, Global Development has performed an extraordinary feat; it is a book that will be of value to scholars and nonspecialists alike."---Giuliana Chamedes, American Historical Review"Sara Lorenzini offers a lucid, well written and often insightful narrative on the main globaldevelopment concepts and policies between 1945 and 1989."---Iris Borowy, Cold War History"Global Development is a thorough and accessible account of a very complex and important topic. It is an essential reading that deserves a wide (both scholarly and general) readership and that should be on the shelves of everyone interested in the topic of international development specifically and of the Cold War more generally."---Bence Kocsev, Comparativ"[Global Development] provides an impressive new account of the history of international development. . . . An evocative book that, given its range and broad coverage of topics, may become the go-to introductory history of the twentieth-century history of development for some time to come.—Igor Logvinenko, Political Science Quarterly"
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Kesselrings Last Battle War Crimes Trials and Cold War Politics 19451960
Book SynopsisIn 1947 German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was tried and convicted of war crimes committed during World War II. The author's close analysis of the Kesselring case reveals how a network of veterans, lawyers, and German sympathizers in Britain and America achieved the commutation of Kesselring's death sentence and his eventual release.Trade ReviewHistorians have analyzed the postwar trials of German officers before, but none have done it so brilliantly. While truth may be the first casualty in war, Von Lingen shows that it often suffers in peacetime as well. A fascinating and essential book. Robert M. Citino, author of Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 ""A superb study that is balanced, extremely thorough, and highly readable. What makes this book especially timely is its discussion of war crimes, command responsibility, and the process of conducting such trials."" James S. Corum, author of Wolfram von Richthofen: Master of the German Air War ""An important contribution."" Richard Breitman, editor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Eclipse of the Demos The Cold War and the
Book SynopsisAs populism presaging authoritarianism surges worldwide and political rights and civil liberties erode, pundits, politicians, and political scientists agree: democracy is in crisis. But where many blame the rise of neoliberalism, Kyong-Min Son suggests that a longer historical perspective is in order.Trade ReviewThe Eclipse of the Demos offers a striking account of the current fate of democracy in the North Atlantic world and puts paid to presentist accounts of neoliberalism and right-wing ascendance. By focusing on the distinctive contours of Cold War democratic theory and practice, the book sheds light on the historical trajectory of liberal democracy and how it relates both historically and conceptually to neoliberalism, while carefully contextualizing current modalities of democratic disaffiliation. Written with audacity and erudition, Son's book constitutes an important contribution to an accurate and sober understanding of the current travails of democracy." - Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo, author of Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power"The critique of democracy by neoliberal thinkers like F. A. Hayek is often treated as a scandal, a basic sin against the ideology of the free society. Yet Kyong-Min Son's illuminating book shows that skepticism about democracy ran down the mainstream of scholarly conversation after 1945. There was no Golden Age. To understand the challenge to democracy posed by neoliberalism, we must reckon with the entire postwar period." - Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Big Picture The Cold War on the Small Screen
Book SynopsisArgues that the television series The Big Picture, like others produced during that time by the armed forces, served as a vehicle for directed propaganda, scripted to send important Cold War messages to both those in uniform and the American public.Trade ReviewThe past is always a foreign country, but few media documents underline that more clearly than The Big Picture, the US Army’s documentary television program that played on US channels from the 1950s to the early 1970s. John W. Lemza’s pathbreaking study reveals the astonishing penetration of US government propaganda into Cold War homes through this program. He goes on to show how an analysis of that material can itself become an important window on shifting ideas of nation, race, and gender. This book is a remarkable addition to the literature on US Cold War media history, made all the more exciting by the new accessibility of the programs themselves online." - Nicholas J. Cull, author of The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945–1989"John W. Lemza turns our attention to a technology of warfare deployed far from the battlefield: the small screen. The Big Picture explains the significance of the television show the US Army used to tell its story and sell its relevance, from the interservice rivalries of the early Cold War through the social divisions of the US war in Vietnam." - Beth Bailey, Foundation Distinguished Professor and director, Center for Military, War, and Society Studies, University of Kansas
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British Library Publishing Protecting the People
Book SynopsisOne of the world's leading writers on propaganda and information projection presents a remarkably detailed history and critique of the workings and development of the COI from its origins in the Second World War through to the era of AIDS and the threat of nuclear war.
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Pluto Press Outsourced Empire
Book SynopsisThe full picture of the impact of paramilitary insurgencies across the globe.Trade Review'A very important and timely contribution' -- Jasmin Hristov, University of British Colombia, author of Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2016) 'Existing works which seek to explain US foreign policy in imperial terms do not pay sufficient attention to the consistent use of para-state networks. Thomson corrects this lacuna, through detailed empirical analyses ... an original and distinctive book' -- Sam Raphael, Department of Politics and IR, University of Westminster 'A timely and critical look at the evolution, formation, and role of US propelled paramilitarism ... a vital study' -- Jeb Sprague, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti (Monthly Review Press, 2012)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. US Empire: Statecraft in the Global South and Para-State Networks 2. Cold War Statecraft and the Covert Principle: ''Power Moves Involved in the Overthrow of an Unfriendly Government?" 3. US Counterinsurgency: The Growing Paramilitary Movement 4. The Institutionalization of Para-State Networks: Nicaraguan Contras and Beyond 5. Continuity After the Cold War: the Evolution of Para-State Networks 6. The Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror: Consolidation into the Future Conclusion
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Pluto Press Outsourced Empire How Militias Mercenaries and
Book SynopsisThe full picture of the impact of paramilitary insurgencies across the globe.Trade Review'A timely and critical look at the evolution, formation, and role of US propelled paramilitarism ... a vital study' -- Jeb Sprague, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti (Monthly Review Press, 2012)'Existing works which seek to explain US foreign policy in imperial terms do not pay sufficient attention to the consistent use of para-state networks. Thomson corrects this lacuna, through detailed empirical analyses ... an original and distinctive book' -- Sam Raphael, Department of Politics and IR, University of Westminster'A very important and timely contribution' -- Jasmin Hristov, University of British Colombia, author of Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism (Pluto, 2016)Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1. US Imperial Statecraft and Para-Institutional Forces 2. Covert Regime Change in the Early Cold War: 'Power Moves Involved in the Overthrow of an Unfriendly Government' 3. Counterinsurgent Statecraft: Militias, Mercenaries and Contractors 4. Reagan, Low-Intensity Conflict and the Expansion of Para-Institutional Statecraft 5. Continuity After the Cold War and the Consolidation of Para-Institutional Complexes 6. The War on Terror, Irregular Warfare and the Global Projection of Force Conclusions Notes Index
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Pluto Press Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War
Book SynopsisThe history of a Pan-Africanist movement based in Britain and its role in the Cold War in Africa.Trade Review'An insightful study of politics, policies and personalities ... an important contribution to the literature on decolonisation in British West Africa' -- Ayodeji Olukoju, University of Lagos'The culmination of many years of research, this book provides a fascinating introduction to the dawning of the Cold War in Africa. Simply told, readable and with a wealth of information, this work is invaluable' -- Hakim Adi, University of Chichester'This book exposes the Cold War mechanisms of 20th century imperialist agencies and illuminates their calculated methods to sabotage the launch of the first Pan-African liberated nation, Ghana, during the era of Kwame Nkrumah. Pan-African strategists need to read this' -- Daryl Zizwe Poe, Lincoln University'There have been numerous publications about the cold war and Africa, and about anti-colonial movements in Africa; but none has dealt with such analytical rigour the interconnections between those two global events and the political activities of Kwame Nkrumah. This book fills that vacuum' -- Kwame Ninsin, University of Ghana'The initial political work of the great "independista", Kwame Nkrumah, has been meticulously dissected in this book. Essential reading for anyone interested in Nkrumah before 1950 and his indefatigable fight for West African unity, a passion that consumed him long before his African unity project' -- Baffour Ankomah, former editor of New African MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The ‘Relevant’ World, 1940–5 2. Campaigns for Independence, Unity and Pan-Africanism by Africans in the USA , UK and Africa, 1930s–1945 3. 1945: The Formation and Aims of WANS 4. WANS’s Activities, 1946 4 5. WANS’s Activities, 1947–8 6. Nkrumah’s Activities, 1947–8 7. The Gold Coast, Nigeria and Francophone West Africa, 1945–8 8. The ‘Relevant’ World, 1945–8 9. Conclusion: The Cold War Appendix: Publications by WANS and its Members – Summaries Index
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History Press Daughters of the KGB Moscows Secret Spies
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The History Press The Solitary Spy A Political Prisoner in Cold War
Book SynopsisThe Solitary Spy is a unique account of the terrifying experience of incarceration and interrogation in an East German political prison, from which Boyd eventually escaped one step ahead of the KGB.
£29.21
The History Press Ltd BRIXMIS
Book SynopsisThe only first-hand account of BRIXMIS, the British Army’s most secret unit of the Cold War
£13.49
The History Press Ltd Spy Runner
Book SynopsisThe life of Major Ronnie Reed, legendary MI5 officer from 1942 to 1976, is revealed in his only interview, recorded by his son
£10.44
The History Press Ltd The Solitary Spy
Book SynopsisThe Solitary Spy is a unique account of the terrifying experience of incarceration and interrogation in an East German political prison, from which Boyd eventually escaped one step ahead of the KGB.
£11.69
The History Press Ltd Spy and Counterspy Secret Agents and Double
Book SynopsisThe shadowy world of supposedly legalized spying has an enduring fascination for us all. Spy and Counterspy reveals for the first time the web of spies that spanned the globe during and after the Second World War, working for organisations like MI5 & MI6, the CIA & OSS, Soviet Smersh & NKVD, Japanese Tokko and the German Gestapo. These men and women lived extraordinary lives, always on the edge of exposure and the risk of death. Many of them were so in love with the Great Game of espionage that they betrayed their countries and acted as double and sometimes even triple agents in a complex deception that threatened the very grasp of power in government. Their war in the shadows remained unrecognized until today.
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The History Press Ltd A Bucket of Sunshine
Book SynopsisOffers insight into life in the mid-1960s on a RAF Canberra nuclear-armed squadron in West Germany on the frontline in the Cold War. The author tells his story warts and all, with many amusing overtones, in what was an extremely serious business when the world was standing on the brink of nuclear conflict.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War
Book SynopsisTurkish Intelligence and the Cold War examines the hitherto unexplored history of secret intelligence cooperation between three asymmetric partners specifically the UK, US and Turkey from the end of the Second World War until the Turkey's first military coup d''état on 27 May 1960. The book shows that our understanding of the Cold War as a binary rivalry between the two blocs is too simple an approach and obscures important characteristics of intelligence cooperation among allies. Egemen Bezci shows that a pragmatic approach offers states new opportunities to protect national interests, by conducting 'intelligence diplomacy' to influence crucial areas such as nuclear weapons and to exploit cooperation in support of their own strategic imperatives. This study not only reveals previously-unexplored origins of secret intelligence cooperation between Turkey and West, but also contributes to wider academic debates on the nature of the Cold War by highlighting the potential agency Trade ReviewTurkish Intelligence & The Cold War will broaden many readers knowledge of Turkish intelligence. A worthwhile contribution to the literature. * Studies in Intelligence *In April 1957 US Ambassador Fletcher Warren burst into Prime minister Menderes’s cabinet meeting to try and prevent him from taking military action in Syria. Menderes had to make a hard choice. This is one of the more dramatic moments in Egemen Bezci’s new book Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War. * Duvar English *Overall, the book is highly likely to be beneficial for scholars and students who are interested in Cold War history, Middle Eastern history, Turkish history and Intelligence Studies. It focuses on an under-studied topic, challenges the conventional wisdom and makes a significant contribution to the literature. * Middle Eastern Studies *Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War is unique in several ways, it gets us to think about the Cold War from outside the simple binary of the East-West divide, enables us to examine non-Western approaches to espionage and gets us to analyse how weaker powers respond to the asymmetrical relationships. * The New Arab *A useful contribution to the intelligence literature, in particular on the subject of international intelligence cooperation and the role of intelligence in foreign policy. * Intelligence and National Security *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Dark Origins of the Turkish-British-American Alliance 1. Machinery in Comparison 2. Historical Background, 1923-1945 3. (Dis)Trusting your Allies: NATO and CENTO 4. Spies, Atoms and Signals 5. Counter-Subversion: Our Common 'Enemies' 6. Covert Action: The Turks' Hidden Hand in Syria 7. Conclusion: Keeping up with the Alliance 8. Bibliography Index
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McFarland & Co Inc Bigger Bombs for a Brighter Tomorrow
Book Synopsis Right after World War II, the United States felt secure in its atomic monopoly. With the American Pax Atomica in place, the free world held an apparent strategic advantage over the Soviet bloc and saw itself as a bulwark against communist expansion. But America''s atomic superiority in the early postwar years was more fiction than fact. From 1945 until 1950, the U.S. atomic arsenal was poorly coordinated, equipped and funded. The newly formed Atomic Energy Commission inherited from the Manhattan Engineer District a program suffering from poor organization, failing infrastructure and internal conflict. The military establishment and the Air Force''s Strategic Air Command little knew what to do with this new weapon. The Air Force and the AEC failed to coordinate their efforts for a possible atomic air offensive and war plans were ill-conceived, reflecting unrealistic expectations of Air Force capabilities and possible political outcomes. This lack of preparedness
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Cornell University Press The Triumph of Improvisation
Book SynopsisIn The Triumph of Improvisation, James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to Operation Desert Storm in January 1991. Drawing on deep archival research and recently declassified papers, Wilson argues that adaptation, improvisation, and engagement by individuals in positions of power ended the specter of a nuclear holocaust. Amid ambivalence and uncertainty, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, George Shultz, and George H. W. Bushand a host of other actorsengaged with adversaries and adapted to a rapidly changing international environment and information age in which global capitalism recovered as command economies failed. Eschewing the notion of a coherent grand strategy to end the Cold War, Wilson paints a vivid portrait of how leaders made choices; some made poor choices while others reacted prudently, imaginatively, and courageously to events they did not foresee. A book about the burdens Trade ReviewIf John Kerry ever gets to spend a day back home, the US secretary of state might wish to meet James Graham Wilson, a young scholar in his department's Office of the Historian. Wilson’s recent book, The Triumph of Improvisation, offers a fresh and valuable look at the end of the cold war. -- Robert Zoellick * The Financial Times *Overall, The Triumph of Improvisation is a solid account of the culmination of the Cold War.... It is a well-researched and well-written piece that gives a solid account of the decisions and actions that led to the end of the decades-long conflict. Wilson's emphasis on the contributions of so many players and their willingness to try unconventional means make this book a worthwhile read, as many of these topics have not recieved the attention that they deserve. -- Chris Booth * H-War *Wilson focuses on a quartet of actors, including George Shultz and George H. W. Bush along with Reagan and Gorbachev. His compact narrative—just 204 pages of text—proceeds in disciplined chronological order, which restrains the sort of sweeping and dubious generalizations that often mar other treatments of the Cold War's last decade. -- Steven F. Hayward * National Review *Wilson's real contribution, and the part that scholars of this period will find most interesting, is his coverage of Reagan and Schultz. White House policy making during the Reagan years can be a difficult and puzzling process for historians to describe, but Wilson accomplishes it with grace and impressive analysis as he chronicles the shift from confrontation to cooperation with the Soviet Union. This is an excellent book with the broad goal of explaining the end of the Cold War based on the actions of individual leaders. Wilson's lively prose and clear analysis of superpower relations will appeal to the general reader, and the illuminating sections on Reagan and Schultz will be of special interest to Cold War scholars. -- Christopher Maynard * Journal of American History *What is surprising is his thesis, which is original in its approach, that these men brought an end to the great Soviet-American rivalry through unscripted actions. In this and in other ways, including its provocative argument, The Triumph of Improvisation is a useful and welcome addition to the literature on the subject. -- Joseph M. Siracusa * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Individuals and Power 1. Reagan Reaches 2. Stagnation and Choices 3. Shultz Engages 4. Gorbachev Adapts 5. Recovery and Statecraft 6. Gorbachev's New World Order 7. Bush’s New World Order Conclusion: Individuals and Strategy
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Cornell University Press Unarmed Forces
Book SynopsisThroughout the Cold War, people worldwide feared that the U.S. and Soviet governments could not prevent a nuclear showdown. Citizens from both East-bloc and Western countries, among them prominent scientists and physicians, formed networks to promote...Trade ReviewSo if the mighty steel of US military strength did not tame the Russian bear, what did? Matthew Evangelista's answer to this question should pique the interest of argumentation scholars.... Evangelista's findings raise serious questions about realpolitik models of international relations that explain US Cold War victory over the Soviet Union in terms of one mammoth billiard ball smashing into and destroying its more fragile counterpart. His impressive empirical research illustrates how threats, policies, and norms were constructed and deconstructed by argumentation conducted in transnational channels of communication. If the significance of this finding for students of argumentation is not already apparent, it becomes obvious in Evangelista's final case study, which examines the influence of transnational activism on post-Soviet policy. * Argumentation and Advocacy *Matthew Evangelista's Unarmed Forces fills a key gap in Cold War historiography and international relations theory by examining how transnational actors (TNAs) affected Soviet and Russian security policies from the 1950s to the mid-1990s.... The book's most important theoretical contribution is its demonstration that, contrary to standard models, TNAs can affect security issues.... The book's remarkable empirical detail and clear theoretical argument will be invaluable for Cold War historians, arms control experts, international relations theorists, and aspiring transnational actors. -- Andrew Bennett, Georgetown University * Slavic Review *This is a highly detailed but readable book, punctuated by photographs and entertaining chapter captions.... Evangelista's book makes valuable reading for scholars interested in expanding their views about the end of the Cold War, as well as for those who will be inspired by the fact that transnational citizen influence could bring some amount of pressure to bear on one of the most brutal and tyrannical regimes of the twentieth century. -- Valerie Sperling, Clark University * Journal of Cold War Studies *This book will help educate those who think the course of the Cold War and its end—or for that matter any important dimension of international politics—were driven only by governments, national leaders, and vast political forces.... This is a smart, well-argued, and unassuming book. * Foreign Affairs *At the core of this book lies a thesis unsettling for conventional explanations of the cold war and its end: in terms of its professed aims of moderating Soviet conduct, U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union was a resounding failure.... At one level, this book functions as a massive indictment, sotto voce, of the U.S. security establishment, its government officials, allied academics, and media publicists. Evangelista cuts through their bluff, bluster, and baloney to reveal an astounding intellectual bankruptcy.... This is a powerful, path-breaking study. -- Michael Urban * Political Science Quarterly *To his credit, Matthew Evangelista has developed in Unarmed Forces a powerful argument that transnational movements of the past half century were able to influence the policies and decisions of a rigid, totalitarian USSR and a bureaucratized US foreign policy establishment.... He carefully marshals his arguments and provides a wealth of source material as an important dividend for the interested reader. -- Herbert L. Abrams, Stanford University * Physics Today *
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma A Military History of the Cold War 19621991
Book SynopsisStudy of the Cold War all too often shows us the war that wasn't fought. The reality, of course, is that many ‘hot’ conflicts did occur, some with the great powers' weapons and approval, others without. It is this reality, and this period of quasi-war and semiconflict, that Jonathan House plumbs in A Military History of the Cold War, 1962-1991.
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John Wiley & Sons A Military History of the Cold War 19621991
Book SynopsisStudy of the Cold War all too often shows us the war that wasn’t fought. The reality, of course, is that many ‘hot’ conflicts did occur, some with the great powers’ weapons and approval, others without. It is this reality, and this period of quasi-war and semiconflict, that Jonathan House plumbs in this volume.
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Louisiana State University Press Red Reckoning
Book SynopsisThough it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century transformed the US and forced Americans to reconsider almost every aspect of their society, culture, and identity.Trade ReviewRed Reckoning assembles a remarkable set of authors and essays—provocative, bold, controversial, and enlightening—which suggest how much the Cold War changed America." - Thomas A. Schwartz, author of Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography"The unsuspected corners of American society that this book explores make Red Reckoning a volume to savor." - Stephen J. Whitfield, author of The Culture of the Cold War"Red Reckoning is an excellent catalyst for revisiting so much of what the Cold War altered about American life and discussing how these changes now influence our present politics." - Jack Adam MacLennan, assistant professor of political science and graduate program director for National Security Studies at Park University"By examining the Cold War's impact on U.S. society, Red Reckoning helps illustrate the degree to which our rights, laws, government policies, social culture, entertainment, and even our national identity were transformed by Cold War fears and assumptions." - Ralph G. Carter, author of Essentials of U.S. Foreign Policy Making"Red Reckoning carefully explains how the military, economic, informational, and diplomatic perils of the struggles between the world's superpowers impacted domestic policy and family structures. I highly recommend it." - Maj. Gen. Byron S. Bagby (retired), former operations director of Joint Force Command Brunssum (NATO) and chief of staff for US Army, Europe
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The University Press of Kentucky The Cold War at Home and Abroad Domestic Politics
Book SynopsisAmericans may cling to the belief that "politics stops at the water's edge," but the reality is that parochial political interests often play a critical role in shaping the nation's interactions with the outside world.In The Cold War at Home and Abroad: Domestic Politics and US Foreign Policy since 1945, editors Andrew L.
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The University Press of Kentucky Fighting the Cold War A Soldiers Memoir American
Book SynopsisWhen four-star general John Rogers Galvin retired from the US Army after 44 years of distinguished service in 1992, the Washington Post hailed him as a man without peer among living generals. In Fighting the Cold War, the soldier, scholar, and statesman recounts his active participation in more than sixty years of international history.Trade ReviewGeneral Jack Galvin has given us an insightful, important analysis of one of history's mega events - the Cold War when the future of the planet was at stake. This soldier-statesman was an insider's insider and we should be very grateful for his service and wisdom."" - Tom Brokaw""Widely respected as a soldier, scholar, and statesman - who stood out in his generation as a brilliant strategic thinker - General Jack Galvin was also a voracious reader with a wonderfully inquiring mind and a keen intellect. The joy he takes in observing, commenting, and writing-with a wry sense of humor-on an extraordinary range of experiences emerges wonderfully in the pages of this book. Fighting the Cold War thus is an exceptional commentary not only on General Galvin's life and times, but also on timeless issues like leadership, strategic thinking, family, and relationships."" - General David H. Petraeus, USA (Ret.), from the foreword""The Cold War could not have been won, nor ended so peacefully, without individuals like Jack Galvin manning the front lines. Fighting the Cold War is a thoughtful record of service by a distinguished leader in a tumultuous period."" - Henry Kissinger""Galvin played a vital role in the Cold War, and his experiences spanned much of America's history from the 1960s to the 1990s - from Vietnam to Central America to Europe. In Fighting the Cold War he tells this important story with style and verve."" - Lawrence S. Kaplan, author of The Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg: From Isolation to International Engagement""During his more than forty-five years of service, during which he rose to become NATO Supreme Commander, General Jack Galvin was one of the brightest stars of his profession. Far more than just the memoir of one of the Army's finest, Fighting the Cold War is also the unusually candid, modest and insightful story of an exceptional teacher, scholar and diplomat whose dedication to the nation has made him a role model for us all. His book is a rare gem."" - Carlo D'Este, Author of Patton: A Genius For War""General Jack Galvin's career spans a critical period in American history, from before the start of Vietnam through the end of the Cold War. His memoir provides a keen personal perspective on all of those events, and reminds us of what we owe to those who have served as he has."" - Francis Fukuyama, author of Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy""General 'Jack' Galvin's extraordinary service was marked by dedication, wisdom, and absolute integrity. In this appealing memoir he describes with modesty and candor the challenges he faced during eventful times for our Army and our nation. It is quite simply a very fine account by a very fine soldier."" - General John W. Vessey Jr., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (1982-1985)""General Jack Galvin is one of the greatest soldiers this country ever had."" - President George H.W. Bush""I was a warrant officer helicopter pilot for General Galvin when he commanded a battalion in Vietnam. I worked decades in and for the Army and never served under or met another officer of his caliber. I would literally charge Hell with a bucket of ice water for him and am thrilled by this terrific book about soldiers and service and sacrifice."" - Bruce James, Ghostrider 11 ""Zorba""Gen. Jack Galvin was the kind of warrior intellectual the U.S. Army produces at its very best. This wonderful memoir distills what Galvin learned in his 44 years of service - building toward his role as Supreme Allied Commander when the Cold War ended. A moment that sums up this book is something Galvin says he told Henry Kissinger in 1988 about the darkest days of World War II. Watched young second lieutenants head off to their commands from the Anzio beachhead, an observer asked: ""I wonder if they are well read?"" Still the right question. Those who love the U.S. Army will want to add this volume to their shelves."" - David Ignatius, Columnist, The Washington Post""General Jack Galvin is a true Cold War hero. Few Americans combined the roles of soldier, scholar, and statesman during those decades, as ably as he. His leadership has been exemplary, and we are fortunate to have it reflected so clearly in this excellent memoir."" - John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University""From his early days in the atomic army of the 1950s, through two tours in Vietnam, to top commands in Europe and Panama, General John Galvin witnessed nearly half-a-century of American military history. Honest, insightful, reflective, and entertaining, his memoir is a fascinating insider's perspective of Cold War soldiering."" - Brian McAllister Linn, author of The Army's Way of War""[I]ntriguing... A valuable read for anyone interested in the continuing evolvement of the American military."" - Washington Times""This engaging memoir of a solider's service is an altogether superb work. [He] is candid, lucid, meticulous in research, and writes with verve on a wide canvas."" - Richard Halloran, US Army War College Parameters""He has a unique perspective on many of the momentous events of the latter half of the twentieth century. It is not only his access, but also his perspicacity that gives this memoir its unique value. Young men and women considering military service will appreciate this book. Galvin recounts both the hardships and rewards that come with service."" - Survival""Students of military history will find much in the book about the Vietnam War, as well as about the American Cold War presence in Europe and Latin America.""Superbly written memoir....Galvin is a gifted writer and writes in a highly conversant style that allows him to tell a story very succinctly. It is unquestionably one of the most readable soldier's memoirs published in recent years."" - On Point""Galvin's memoir (introduced by an admiring Petraeus) is a characteristically modest, wry, and thoughtful account, not only of leadership but also of the rise, fall, and rise again of U.S. military power in the second half of the twentieth century. And it is, as well, a reminder that now and again, one comes across generals with the stuff of greatness in them."" - Foreign Affairs""He provides a unique perspective that includes candid thoughts on his personal engagements with leaders such as Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Colin Powell. Superbly written, highly detailed."" - Military Review""A delight to read. The real Galvin - son of Boston, family man, soldier-scholar, mensch - comes through on every page.Galvin reveals the people and personalities behind the policy.He artfully showed how the general-statesman navigated political-military issues, lined up the allies, openly consorted with ambassadors, and coordinated with multiple bosses, all while simultaneously developing new warfighting concepts and arms-control proposals. Worth every minute that you invest in it, whether you are a historian, a student of leadership, a NATO-phile, a USSOUTHCOM staffer, or just interested in the Cold War as seen through the eyes of a general raised in Boston's working class"" - Joseph J Collins, Joint Forces Quarterly""Galvin is a skilled raconteur, and his narrative holds a reader's attention as he moves from story to story. Galvin's memoir is an entertaining endeavor full of fascinating observations on the personalities and events of the Cold War. It captures the feel of that epoch's waning years as East and West moved toward a wary rapprochement. Reading the book is time well spent for both military personnel and civilians interested in the career of one of the Army's most distinguished officers of the Cold War period, as well as the history of the era itself."" - Army History""His memoir is superbly written; it will be a treat for all who read it."" - Army Magazine""A highly interesting and informative autobiography."" - VVA Veteran""It is an intelligent, complete analysis untouched by the hubris and arrogance of so many other leadership biographies. The colour and texture he provides makes the reader feel part of the discussion - a skill few writers manage with such effectiveness.Not only was Galvin a most capable soldier, but he wrote engagingly, with breadth, perspective and humor."" - RUSI Journal""The rich detail emanates from [Galvin's] own copious notebooks and journals, supplemented by material from his wife and, most importantly, a series of letters to his father that extended over thirty-seven years. [The book] offers insightful and compelling stories from the Cold War, told by a capable and engaging writer."" - Journal of Military History""General Jack Galvin has written a fascinating memoir that is both an important lesson in history and a tutorial in strategic leadership."" - Prism"" Fighting the Cold War, which spans Galvin's life from youth to West Point to Vietnam to NATO command and beyond, is a free-roaming reflection on the events, people, and causes that made Gen. Galvin one of the key architects to the peaceful end of the Cold War.The fine balance between thinking and acting is one of the consistent themes in Fighting the Cold War. Whether dealing with the paperwork headaches in the 101st or disarmament talks with his Soviet counterparts, Gen. Galvin's memoir reveals an astute and self-reflective leader who grasped the many dimensions of senior command. The book offers ideas and examples of how to be an effective commander and staff officer at all levels, how to deal with foreign forces, and how to deal with profound change. As we prepare for an uncertain future, Fighting the Cold War provides insights on how to approach change thoughtfully, with emphasis on self-reflection, teamwork, and communication."" - Infantry
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The University Press of Kentucky Maxwell Taylors Cold War
Book SynopsisGeneral Maxwell Taylor served at the nerve centers of US military policy and Cold War strategy and experienced firsthand the wars in Korea and Vietnam, as well as crises in Berlin and Cuba.
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The University Press of Kentucky Remaking the World
Book SynopsisDrawing on new scholarship, this comprehensive study provides a chronological overview from World War I to the Soviet collapse and highlights key developments in the international system as decolonization unfolded in tandem with the Cold War.Table of ContentsIntroduction Decolonization and the Cold War India Egypt The Congo Vietnam Angola Iran Conclusion
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The University Press of Kentucky Remaking the World
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Decolonization and the Cold War India Egypt The Congo Vietnam Angola Iran Conclusion
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MW - Rutgers University Press A Rhetorical Crime Genocide in the Geopolitical
Book SynopsisTrade Review"No one to date has documented the history of the concept of genocide with the same level of sophistication as Weiss-Wendt. A Rhetorical Crime stands as the definitive study of this period in the evolution of international criminal law."— David Crowe, author of War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice: A Global History "New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, June 8," by Nina C. Ayoub— Chronicle of Higher Education "Anton Weiss-Wendt has presented clear and innovative arguments on a crucial topic and scrupulously supported them with relevant documents and other evidence. In so doing, he has written a salutary alternative narrative of human rights in the Cold War, one that has the potential to improve our understanding of Cold War dynamics as a whole."— Michigan War StudiesTable of ContentsForeword by Douglas Irvin-Erickson List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Soviet Scholars of International Law as Foot Soldiers in the Cold War 2 Trial by Word: The Gulag Condemned 3 Soviet Satellites Shift Allegiances: Hungary, Yugoslavia 4 The Struggle for Influence in Postcolonial Africa and the Middle East: Algeria, Congo, Nigeria, Iraq 5 Southeast Asia and the Rise of Communist China: Tibet, Bangladesh, Cambodia 6 (Soviet) Piggy in the Middle: American Liberal Left versus Radical Right on US Ratification of the Genocide Convention 7 Moscow Taps the New Left: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Black Panthers, and the American Indian Movement 8 Soviet-Turkish Relations and Socialist Armenia 9 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 10 An Uncertain End to the Cold War and the Reactivation of the Genocide Treaty Conclusion Afterword: Genocide Rhetoric and a New Cold War Appendix A: Articles in Pravda with Reference to Genocide, 1948‒1988 Appendix B: Articles in the New York Times with Reference to Genocide, 1948–1988 Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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New York University Press Faith and War
Book SynopsisAn exploration of American religious responses to the Cold and Vietnam WarsTrade Review"A patient and clear exploration of religious ambivalence. David Settje is an intrepid researcher, and a trustworthy narrator. This book is a most welcome addition to our understanding of the violent and peace-making legacies of Christian participation in the U.S. during a particularly contentious period." --Jon Pahl,author of Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence "Settje has conducted an extensive amount of archival and periodical research, and uncovered much texture and diversity in American Christianity's foreign-policy positions during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s."-Journal of American Studies "Enhanced with a wealth of footnotes, an extensive bibliography, and a comprehensive index, Faith and War is strongly recommended for community and academic library 20th Century American History collections in general."-Midwest Book Review "Although much has been written on Christianity and the state or its relationship with politics, little has been produced on its relations to US foreign policy. This work...stands out for its meticulous use of sources in fields previously untapped...Not only a source of well-researched material, this book is also a model of how such research should be brought to the wider public."-Religious Studies Review "Settje's analysis is noteworthy for three reasons. First, while he sensibly identifies divisions between conservative and liberal American Christians he realises that such categories are imperfect. There was in-fighting across the religious board and when it came to adjudicating the Vietnam War, some members of some churches bucked the prevailing interpretative trend... this magnificent book leaves us in no doubt that there was some significant shaping going on."-Jonathan Wright,Catholic Herald "Settje's groundbreaking investigation of the United Church of Christ and the African Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as insightful analysis of Southern Baptist arguments, expands our understanding of denominational and lay perspectives immeasurably. It's an intellectual religious history that elucidates the mindsets behind the mantras." --Jill Gill,Boise State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Christianity and Foreign Policy, 1964-1975: An Introductory Analysis 1 Christianity and the Cold War, 1964-1968 2 Christian Responses to Vietnam, 1964-1968 3 Christianity Confronts Cold War Nixon Policies, 1969-1973 4 Christian America Responds to Nixon's Vietnam Policies Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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