The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War (Nichter Luke a.)(Pevná vazba)

The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War (Nichter Luke a.)(Pevná vazba)

For three decades, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was at the center of important events in American foreign policy, as well as involved in much of domestic politics. Using previously unexamined material from dozens of archives, historian Luke A. Nichter recounts, for the first time, Lodge's extraordinary

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

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

Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War (Kalb Marvin)(Pevná vazba)

'A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television newsMarvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on the young man who became that journalist

Painting the Light (Gunning Sally Cabot)(Pevná vazba)

From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow's War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha's Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century.Martha's Vineyard, 1898. In her first life, Ida Russell had been a painter. Five years ago,

Communism and anti-Communism in early Cold War Italy: Language, symbols and myths (Mariuzzo Andrea)(Pevná vazba)

The books detects the struggle of Communism and anti-Communism as a key feature for the making of the political system in post-WWII democratic Italy, and presents it in its international context through a broad analysis of the main communication

The Last Great War of Antiquity (Howard-Johnston James)(Pevná vazba)

The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe world. The conflict raged on an unprecedented

RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War: Thinking the Unthinkable (Walpole Nigel)(Pevná vazba)

_RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War_ is the result of ten years of research, involving many visits to the former German Democratic Republic by a small Anglo/German team of military specialists. Their purpose was to explore the lives of RAF and East German fighter and

The Last Tree: A Seed of Hope - Luke Adam Hawker

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Together, and in the highly successful genre of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse, Luke Hawker's new book is a superbly illustrated narrative that evokes the fragility and beauty of our natural world

The Cambridge History of the Cold War 3 Volume Set (Leffler Melvyn P.)(Pevná vazba)

The Cambridge History of the Cold War is a comprehensive, international history of the conflict that dominated world politics in the twentieth century. The three-volume series, written by leading international experts in the field, elucidates how the Cold War evolved from the geopolitical,

Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture (McCray W. Patrick)(Pevná vazba)

The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years.Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago, the borders between technology and art

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

King John, Henry III and England's Lost Civil War (Paul Davis John)(Pevná vazba)

In 1204, the great Angevin Empire created by the joining of the dynasties of Henry II of England and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, was fragmenting. At its height, the family landholdings had been among the largest the world had ever seen. From the border of England and Scotland in the north to

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

Operation Morthor - The Death of Dag Hammarskjoeld and the Last Great Mystery of the Cold War (Somaiya Ravi)(Paperback / softback)

Nuke 'Em! Classic Cold War Comics Celebrating the End of the World (Wyn Aaron)(Pevná vazba)

Back in the 1950s during the 'Cold War' every new day beckoned the possibility of the end of the world. Kids grew up in the shadow of bomb shelters and were treated to daily lessons at school on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. Americans were besieged by constant reminders to police our

Free World - Art and Thought in the Cold War (Menand Louis)(Pevná vazba)

The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense - economic and political, artistic and

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

Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962 (House Jonathan M.)(Pevná vazba)

The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with

Epitaphs of the Great War: The Last 100 Days (Wearne Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

Epitaphs of the Great War: The Last 100 Days is the third instalment in a collection that presents headstone inscriptions from the graves of soldiers killed during World War I. Limited by the Imperial War Graves Commission to sixty-six characters, these inscriptions are masterpieces of compact

The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine (Cockburn Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

Why Does America Go to War? In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the west from the dangers of Islamists. US Solders are stationed in over 800 locations across the world to act as the righteous arbiters of the rule of

An Analysis of Odd Arne Westad's the Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Glenn Patrick)(Paperback)

For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents that determined its course took place in the northern hemisphere, specifically in the face-off between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in Europe. In this view,

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

The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjld (Somaiya Ravi)(Pevná vazba)

Investigative reporter Ravi Somaiya uncovers the mystery behind the death of renowned diplomat and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskj ld in this true story of spies, intrigue, and unsolved crimes. On Sept. 17, 1961, Dag Hammarskj ld boarded a Douglas DC6 propeller plane on the sweltering tarmac of