• China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975 (New Cold War History)

    In the quarter century after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable foes, France and the United States. Indeed, the rise and fall of this alliance is one of the most crucial developments in the history of the Cold War in Asia. Drawing on newly released Chinese archival sources, memoirs and diaries, and documentary collections, Qiang Zhai offers the first comprehensive exploration of Beijing's Indochina policy and the historical, domestic, and international contexts within which it developed.In examining China's co... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0807848425
    • ASIN: 0807848425
    • ISBN: 0807848425
    • Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press

  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel


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    • ASIN: B0756DZ4C1
    • Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

  • CNN's Cold War Documentary: Issues and Controversy

    This collection of essays provides perspective on The Cold War, the CNN-produced 24-part television series and accompanying book, and presents material on both sides of the debate: Is the CNN series an accurate depiction or revisionist history? CNN's Cold War Documentary presents material on both sides of the debate to answer this queston.

    • ASIN: 0817997423
    • ASIN: 0817997423
    • ISBN: 0817997423
    • Brand: Brand: Hoover Institution Press
    • Manufacturer: Hoover Institution Press

  • The Venona Secrets: The Definitive Exposé of Soviet Espionage in America (Cold War Classics)

    The Venona Secrets presents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War. In 1995, secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted finally became available to American historians. Now, after spending more than five years researching all the available evidence, espionage experts Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel reveal the full, shocking story of the days when Soviet spies ran their fingers through America's atomic-age secrets. Included in The Venona Secrets are the details of the spying activities that ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1621572951
    • ASIN: 1621572951
    • ISBN: 1621572951
    • Manufacturer: Regnery History

  • Face to Face with the Bomb: Nuclear Reality after the Cold War

    "Here in Paul Shambroom's remarkable photographs are the machines we have built at great expense to destroy millions of human lives... and the men and women whose professional duty it is to maintain them until we learn the deep lesson that the discovery of how to release nuclear energy revealed a natural limit to the scale of human conflict." -- from the Introduction by Richard RhodesAlthough the Cold War ended more than ten years ago, the nuclear dimensions of that conflict remain ever present. The United States alone maintains a nuclear force of over 10,000 warheads; the world's other nuclea... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0801872022
    • ASIN: 0801872022
    • ISBN: 0801872022
    • Brand: Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press
    • Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press

  • Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

    The incredible untold story of WWII’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue Britain’s Special Air Service—or SAS—was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a battlefield map of World War II’s African theater and saw a protracted struggle with Rommel’s desert forces, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite, well-trained men, he could parachute behind enemy lines and sabotage their airpl... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 110190416X
    • ASIN: 110190416X
    • ISBN: 110190416X
    • Brand: Crown Publishing Group NY
    • Manufacturer: Crown

  • Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders


    • ASIN: B00261OOXA
    • ASIN: B00261OOXA
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • Cold War


    • ASIN: B07MXM7XVV
    • ASIN: B07MXM7XVV

  • Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks)

    It’s the revolutionary world history study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.     Everything You Need to Ace World History . . . kicks off with the Paleolithic Era and transports the reader to ancient civilizations—from Africa and beyond; the middle ages across the world; the Renaissance; the age of exploration and colonialism, revolutions, and the modern world and the wars and movements that shaped it. The BIG FAT NOTEBOOK™ series is built on a simple and irresistible conceit—borrowing the notes from the smartest kid in class. There are five b... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0761160949
    • ASIN: 0761160949
    • ISBN: 0761160949
    • Brand: Workman Publishing Company
    • Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

  • The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

    From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War    While driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station heard a knock on his car window. A man on the curb handed him an envelope whose contents stunned U.S. intelligence: details of top-secret Soviet research and developments in mili... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00OEXDLPU
    • ASIN: B00OEXDLPU
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

    A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller — What happened that night on Dead Mountain?The mystery of Dead Mountain: In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened.As gripp... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00CUSQOA0
    • ASIN: B00CUSQOA0
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Chronicle Books LLC

  • Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6

    Gordon Thomas, a leading expert on the intelligence community, returns in Secret Wars to provide the definitive history of the famed MI5 and MI6.Thomas's wide-sweeping history of two of the oldest and most powerful agencies in the world chronicles a century of both triumphs and failures. He recounts the roles that British intelligence played in the Allied victory in World War II; the postwar treachery of Great Britain's own agents; the defection of Soviet agents and the intricate process of "handling" them; the cooperation between the British and Americans in the search for Osama bin Laden; an... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0312603525
    • ASIN: 0312603525
    • ISBN: 9780312603526
    • Brand: Thomas Dunne Books
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

  • A Documentary History of Communism and the World: From Revolution to Collapse

    In the ten years since the last edition of this book, the world has undergone tremendous and, seemingly irrevocable change. With the virtual demise of the international communist movement and the increasing isolation of the remaining old-style regimes, communism has become history. Robert V. Daniels has updated his definitive work to chronicle the last years of international communism. It contains a new chapter with 22 documents pertaining to such key ideas and events as perestroika, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, and the Tiananmen Massacre. Togeth... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0874516781
    • ASIN: 0874516781
    • ISBN: 0874516781
    • Brand: Brand: Vermont
    • Manufacturer: University Press of New England

  • The Putin Interviews (Showtime Documentary Films)

    WITH SUBSTANTIAL MATERIAL NOT INCLUDED IN THE DOCUMENTARY Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year span—never before has the Russian leader spoken in such depth or at such length with a Western interviewer. No topics are off limits in the interviews, which first occurred during Stone’s trips to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowde... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1510733426
    • ASIN: 1510733426
    • ISBN: 1510733426
    • Brand: Hot Books
    • Manufacturer: Hot Books

  • Two Kinds of Truth (A Harry Bosch Novel Book 20)

    Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael ConnellyAn NPR Best Book of 2017A Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery of 2017An Amazon Book of the MonthHarry Bosch, exiled from the LAPD, is working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department when all hands are called out to a local drugstore, where two pharmacists have been murdered in a robbery. Bosch and the tiny town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big-business worl... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B06W9NKRXG
    • ASIN: B06W9NKRXG
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend (DVD)

    From executive producer Channing Tatum and director Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) comes a deeply personal documentary that highlights the intimate relationship between veterans and their K9 companions, both during combat and as they readjust

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  • American Experience: Cold War Roadshow (DVD)

    Cold War Roadshow tells the story of one of the most bizarre episodes in the annals of modern history—the unprecedented trip across America in 1959 by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the world leader of communism

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  • Minutes to Midnight: The Cold War Chronicles (DVD)

    COLD WAR REMEMBERED Filmed over a two-year period, the 60 minute documentary deals with the early years of the ''Cold War'' and one of the U.S. Air Force formations that stood on the ramparts of

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  • WWII Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Diary of the Greatest Battles of WWII (DVD)

    A conflict of epic proportions, World War II is difficult to digest in its entirety. This sensational new documentary collection breaks down the most pivotal moments in a day-by-day style, highlighting the most important battles

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    • Model: 28214

  • Cold War Stalemate (DVD)

    For 45 years, from the end of World War II until the fall of communism in 1990, the world barely survived a precarious and critical period of history as the two superpowers played a precise

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  • The Best of British War Cinema (DVD)

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  • Battlefield Great European Battles of WWII (DVD)

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  • Untold History of United States Part 2: Cold War (Blu-ray)

    Part 2 of The Untold History Of The United States Features Chapters On The Cold War, The 1950s, JFK And Johnson, Nixon &

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  • COLD WAR BOMBERS (DVD/2 DISC NLA! (DVD)

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  • Cold War Stalemate (DVD)

    For 45 years, from the end of World War II until the fall of communism in 1990, the world barely survived a precarious and critical period of history as the two superpowers played a precise

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