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

A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was...  Read More >>

This study analyzes the military administration established by the US and Great Britain in Sicily, Calabria, and...  Read More >>

An insight into a career in the CIA in Southeast Asia.  Read More >>

Drawing on first-hand interviews with rank and file members of Hezbollah, the author illuminates the inner workings...  Read More >>

A compendium of milestone stories and watershed events in popular culture, national and international politics from...  Read More >>

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The untold story of British politics in modern times, through the triumphs and disasters of its five most radical...  Read More >>

As the cruel South Dakota winter thawed toward the end of February 1976, a rancher on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation...  Read More >>

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

A Palestinian prisoner's memoir of thirty years' captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts...  Read More >>

This is not simply a story about flying in Vietnam; there are enough of those. It is a love story about flying....  Read More >>

What tensions characterized the relationships between cinema, European Leftists, and emerging postcolonial ideologies...  Read More >>

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

What tensions characterized the relationships between cinema, European Leftists, and emerging postcolonial ideologies...  Read More >>

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

A history of Norwegian skippers hired by the CIA to command fast patrol boats on secret missions into North Vietnam...  Read More >>

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

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

A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day--published for the alliance's seventy-fifth...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day--published for the alliance's seventy-fifth...  Read More >>

In the early 1980s, after a series of terrorist attacks resulted in American Americans, the United States struck...  Read More >>

Step back in time to an era when the nation was torn asunder by conflict, and the unforgiving Vietnam War exacted...  Read More >>

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""Victory Over Chaos: U.S. Marines Battle for Khafji"" tells a true story that has never been told before. It's...  Read More >>