British Submarines in the Cold War Era (Friedman Norman)(Pevná vazba)

British Submarines in the Cold War Era (Friedman Norman)(Pevná vazba)

British Submarines in the Cold War Era shows how a combination of evolving strategic and tactical requirements and new technology produced successive types of submarines. It is based largely on unpublished and previously classified official documentation, and to the extent allowed by security

British Submarines in Two World Wars (Friedman Norman)(Pevná vazba)

The Cold War (Friedman Norman)(Mass Market Paperbound)

Written by a leading American defense analyst, Dr. Norman Friedman, The Compact Guide: The Cold War is supplemented with 60 photographs and documents that allow the reader to witness the events as they unfolded.As present-day political and military hostilities between Russia and the West threaten

British Destroyers 1870-1935 (Friedman Norman)(Pevná vazba)

British Battleships of the Victorian Era (Friedman Norman)(Pevná vazba)

A major new study of an ever-popular subject written by one of the most highly regarded authorities in the

Beneath the Restless Wave: Memoirs of a Cold War Submariner (Couzens-Lake Edward)(Pevná vazba)

The vivid and engaging biography of Tony Beasley, a telegraphist working on submarines during the Cold War.Tony Beasley joined the Royal Navy as a teenager in 1946. This biography recalls the adventures he had during his time in the Navy, from training and specialization as a telegraphist to being

The History of the British U Class Submarine (Walters Derek)(Paperback)

Original designed in 1934 for anti-submarine training, by the end of the war seventy-two U-Class subs had been commissioned.Seventeen were lost to the enemy and three in accidents. Manned by crews from seven nations' navies, they served world-wide and never more successfully than in the Med, where

Global Development: A Cold War History (Lorenzini Sara)(Pevná vazba)

In the Cold War, 'development' was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds

Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology (Friedman Norman)(Paperback)

Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944 (Bodleian Library)(Pevná vazba)

In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. This book is an irresistible insight into British attitudes towards the French and an interesting, timeless commentary on Anglo-French

Spy in Moscow Station - A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat (Haseltine Eric)(Paperback / softback)

The thrilling, true, cold-war era story of counterespionage in Moscow and the clandestine eavesdropping arms

Cold War Steve - Journal of The Plague Year (Steve Cold War)(Pevná vazba)

Back with a vengeance, collage superstar Cold War Steve goes viral, casting a scathing view on the past year on Plague

Sherman Tank, Vol. 5: The M4a4 British" Sherman in World War II" (Doyle David)(Pevná vazba)

British Battle Tanks: World War I to 1939 (Fletcher David)(Pevná vazba)

When British soldiers charged across the Somme in September 1916, they were accompanied by a new, revolutionary weapon--the tank. After a stuttering start, armored behemoths such as the Mark IV, Mark V, and Whippet Tank played a crucial role in bringing World War I to an end. Marking the centenary

Artists Making Landscapes in Post-War Britain (Garlake Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

An unconventional and illuminating new history of British landscape art in the post-war period In this trailblazing study, Margaret Garlake complicates traditional histories of British landscape art in the post-war period. Drawing together work from painters and photographers--many of them

Chieftain: British Cold War Main Battle Tank (Jackson Robert)(Paperback)

The British Chieftain - designed in the late 1950s as the replacement for the Centurion - was perhaps the best main battle tank in service with Nato during the 1960s and 1970s. Its 120mm rifled main gun and advanced armour made it one of the most formidable tanks of its time, and Robert Jackson's

Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below (Ozorak Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Islam, South Asia and the Cold War (Noorani A.)(Pevná vazba)

Islam, South Asia & The Cold War is a collection of articles written by A. G. Noorani over the last twenty-five years, and published in various dailies and journals to which he has been a regular contributor, including Frontline, The Statesman, The Indian Express, The Illustrated Weekly of India

Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat (Mallaby Christopher)(Paperback)

The centrepiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and France, is the unification of Germany in 1990 ‒ the culmination of years of work by Sir Christopher and his colleagues. He held different views from the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. He saw

U.S. Military Service: A Reference Handbook (Watson Cynthia)(Pevná vazba)

The end of the Cold War ushered in a new kind of war that has already made conventional tactics and strategy obsolete. How has the U.S. military responded?In U.S. Military Service: A Reference Handbook, Cynthia Watson, professor of strategy at the National War College, analyzes the major issues

Operation Morthor - The Last Great Mystery of the Cold War (Somaiya Ravi)(Pevná vazba)

Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange (Searcy Anne)(Pevná vazba)

In 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet arrived in New York for its first ever performances in the United States. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cultural exchange, arranged by the governments of the US and USSR as part of their Cold War strategies. This book explores the first tours of the exchange,

Latin America and the Global Cold War (Field Thomas C.)(Pevná vazba)

Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary

Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (Glajar Valentina)(Pevná vazba)

During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously, in the post-Cold War period there are no