The Cold War books

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'An Alien Ideology': Cold War Perceptions of the Irish Republican Left

'An Alien Ideology': Cold War Perceptions of the Irish...

Author: John Mulqueen
ISBN: 9781789620641
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists

The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists

Author: David Burke ,  Michael Middeke
ISBN: 9781783274703
Format: Paperback
$51.72

The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where...  Read More >>

Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth

Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and...

Author: Iain MacGregor
ISBN: 9781472130570
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie is a vivid...  Read More >>

Bridging East and West: Ol'ha Kobylians'ka, Ukraine's Pioneering Modernist

Bridging East and West: Ol'ha Kobylians'ka, Ukraine's...

Author: Yuliya Ladygina
ISBN: 9781442630772
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Bridging East and West explores the literary evolution of one of Ukraine's foremost modernist writers, Ol'ha Kobylians'ka,...  Read More >>

Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism

Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism

Author: Michael Gehler ,  Piotr H. Kosicki
ISBN: 9789462702165
Format: Hardback
$160.43

The role of Christian Democracy in the collapse of the Communist Bloc  Read More >>

Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present: Revisiting the 50 Years of Discussions from East and Central Europe

Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present: Revisiting the...

Author: Aleksandra Konarzewska ,  Anna Nakai
ISBN: 9780367220853
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Why does 1968 matter today? The authors of this volume believe that it is a crucial point of reference for current...  Read More >>

Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War

Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia,...

Author: Taomo Zhou
ISBN: 9781501739934
Format: Hardback
$108.68

Migration in the Time of Revolution examines how two of the world's most populous countries interacted between 1945...  Read More >>

Italian Intellectuals and International Politics, 1945–1992

Italian Intellectuals and International Politics, 1945–1992...

Author: Alessandra Tarquini ,  Andrea Guiso
ISBN: 9783030249373
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Italian intellectuals played an important role in the shaping of international politics during the Cold War. This...  Read More >>

Goodbye, My Havana: The Life and Times of a Gringa in Revolutionary Cuba

Goodbye, My Havana: The Life and Times of a Gringa in...

Author: Anna Veltfort
ISBN: 9781503610491
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Set against a backdrop of world-changing events during the headiest years of the Cuban Revolution, this work follows...  Read More >>

State Violence, Torture, and Political Prisoners: On the Role Played by Amnesty International in Brazil During the Dictatorship (1964–1985)

State Violence, Torture, and Political Prisoners: On...

Author: Renata Meirelles
ISBN: 9780815353713
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines one of Amnesty International’s first major campaigns against torture, and the impact this had...  Read More >>

Music behind the Iron Curtain: Weinberg and his Polish Contemporaries

Music behind the Iron Curtain: Weinberg and his Polish...

Author: Daniel Elphick (Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9781108493673
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Mieczysław Weinberg's music has been undergoing a revival since his death; this book explains his music in the context...  Read More >>

American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 1946–75: From Orientalism to Professionalism

American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 1946–75:...

Author: Teresa Fava Thomas
ISBN: 9781785271809
Format: Paperback
$40.00

This book examines US State Department's Middle East area experts during the Cold War, known as Arabists or Middle...  Read More >>

Weapons and Equipment of the Warsaw Pact, Volume One

Weapons and Equipment of the Warsaw Pact, Volume One...

Author: Russell Phillips
ISBN: 9781912680023
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This compendium edition brings together the contents of the first three books of the Weapons and Equipment of the...  Read More >>

Weapons and Equipment of the Warsaw Pact, Volume One

Weapons and Equipment of the Warsaw Pact, Volume One...

Author: Russell Phillips
ISBN: 9781912680054
Format: Hardback
$77.60

This compendium edition brings together the contents of the first three books of the Weapons and Equipment of the...  Read More >>

Betrayal in Berlin: George Blake, the Berlin Tunnel and the Greatest Conspiracy of the Cold War

Betrayal in Berlin: George Blake, the Berlin Tunnel...

Author: Steve Vogel
ISBN: 9781473647497
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A true Cold War espionage thriller set underground in the ultra-secret Berlin Tunnel - where British officer George...  Read More >>

Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to Free Russia

Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to Free Russia...

Author: Benjamin Tromly (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Puget Sound)
ISBN: 9780198840404
Format: Hardback
$248.95

At the height of the Cold War, as part of an effort to weaken the Soviet Union, the United States government recruited...  Read More >>

Protecting the People: The Central Office of Information and the Reshaping of Post-War Britain, 1946-2011

Protecting the People: The Central Office of Information...

Author: David Welch
ISBN: 9780712353250
Format: Hardback
$77.63

One of the world's leading writers on propaganda and information projection presents a remarkably detailed history...  Read More >>

The Skripal Files: Putin, Poison and the New Spy War

The Skripal Files: Putin, Poison and the New Spy War...

Author: Mark Urban
ISBN: 9781529006926
Format: Paperback
$19.99

From the heart of the cold war to the current hostilities between Russia and the West, this is the definitive account...  Read More >>

John le Carré and the Cold War

John le Carré and the Cold War

Author: Dr Toby Manning (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781350122161
Format: Paperback
$69.99

John le Carré and the Cold War explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré’s major Cold-War...  Read More >>

Tourism and Travel during the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences across the Iron Curtain

Tourism and Travel during the Cold War: Negotiating...

Author: Sune Bechmann Pedersen ,  Christian Noack
ISBN: 9780367192129
Format: Hardback
$326.00

The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on...  Read More >>

Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank

Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank

Author: James Kinnear ,  Stephen Sewell
ISBN: 9781472838551
Format: Hardback
$54.99

A highly illustrated study of the T-55 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet...  Read More >>

The Battle for Laos: Vietnam's Proxy War, 1955-1975

The Battle for Laos: Vietnam's Proxy War, 1955-1975...

Author: Stephen Emerson
ISBN: 9781526757043
Format: Paperback
$44.99

By 1959 the newly independent Kingdom of Laos was being transformed into a Cold War battleground for global superpower...  Read More >>

Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy: The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the Early Cold War

Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy: The Pugwash...

Author: Gordon Barrett ,  Matthew Evangelista
ISBN: 9789004340152
Format: Hardback
$514.80

This book explores how Pugwash scientists established a role in conflict moderation, what held this project together...  Read More >>

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