Cuban Missile Crisis: the essential reference guide
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The essays of a dozen leading European and American Cold War historians analyze the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in light of new documentary evidence from the archives of two dozen countries and explain what happened behind the scenes. They also r…
Scope and content: Taylor traces the life of Paul Crouch (1903-1955), an infamous paid informant for the federal government during the McCarthy era. Taylor not only highlights Crouch's unusual life, but also examines the dangers of ideologues
Examines the ethical debates that severely tested the American scientific community during the Cold War. It highlights the contributions of scientists to military technologies and strategic policymaking, from the dawning atomic age in the 1940s through the Strategic Defense Init…
Britain, 1972. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services in her final year at Cambridge. The cultural cold war continues and the country is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena is …
Belysning af protestbevægelser og aktivister mod oprustning i England og Vesttyskland fra slutningen af 2. verdenskrig til begyndelsen af 1970'erne med henblik på at afklare, hvordan europæiske samfund oplevede og reagerede på den kolde krig
On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. This book brings together the political, cultural, and scientific factors that fueled the birth and development of NASA and the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo proje…
Examines the role that scientists, in concert with administrators and policymakers, played in American cultural diplomacy after World War II, exploring science's link to US propaganda and psychological warfare campaigns during the Cold War and demonstrating the continued hold of…
A history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. The years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe, but Europeans experienced a 'roller-coaster ride', both in the sense that they were flung through a seri…
"This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture"--The image of the shadow in midtwentiethcentury America appeared across a variety of genres and media including poetry, pulp fiction, photography, and film. Drawing on a…
The Cold War: a post-Cold War history
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A concise, briskly-written account of the Cold War, drawing on the latest archival evidence and scholarly research. It includes a discussion of Cold War historiography and in the introductory section frames the main account by examining some of the subject's primary documents
