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By: Roger Hermiston
ISBN: 9781785907371
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2022
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR - 'a dark remembrance of 1953, when nuclear annihilation was only the press of a button away'.
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By: Ann Curthoys
ISBN: 9781742233918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in. Family ties were tested, friendships torn apart and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through 12 stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family and friendship.
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By: Jeff Schuhrke
ISBN: 9781839769054
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Verso Books
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The secret history of how the CIA used American unions to undermine working class militancy at home and abroad during the Cold War.
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By: Giles Milton
ISBN: 9781529393170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of narrative history'.
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By: Eva Dillon
ISBN: 9780062748195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Charlie English
ISBN: 9780008495138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th March 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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This is the astonishing story of the ten million books that US intelligence smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
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By: Hugh Wilford
ISBN: 9781399816854
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.
(Hardback)
By: Louis Menand
ISBN: 9780007126873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense economic and political, artistic and personal.
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By: Matthew Longo
ISBN: 9781529920987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: David C. Martin
ISBN: 9781510722187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia
ISBN: 9781804512197
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 15th May 2023
Publisher: Helion & Company
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Azules versus Colorados is the name given to a series of armed confrontations between two factions of the Argentine Armed Forces in 1962 and 1963, during the de facto presidency of Jose Maria Guido.
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By: Phil Carradice
ISBN: 9781526728296
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2018
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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A detailed explanation of the landings, relying heavily on first-hand accounts from the men who were there, on the invasion beaches.
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By: Gerry Van Tonder
ISBN: 9781526708267
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Western Allies refusing to bow to Moscow s belligerent tactics undertake a life-sustaining air-relief operation of epic proportions into Berlin
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By: Andrew Long
ISBN: 9781914059032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2021
Publisher: Helion & Company
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An authoritative, richly illustrated summary on the major confrontation of four superpowers over the city of Berlin, including the Berlin Airlift, in 1945-1949.
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By: Andrew Long
ISBN: 9781914377105
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2021
Publisher: Helion & Company
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For many in East Germany, Walter Ulbrichts Workers & Peasants State was not the Communist paradise he had promised. His population was leaving in their droves and he demanded radical action.
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By: Andrew Long
ISBN: 9781804515815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th May 2024
Publisher: Helion & Company
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Cold War Berlin: An Island City Volume 3, US Forces in Berlin - Preparing for War, 1945-1994 examines how the American Berlin Brigade prepared for war: the units that made up the brigade, how it trained, how it was equipped, how it planned to defend the city, and also looks the Special Forces units that served alongside it.
(Hardback)
By: Julie Decker
ISBN: 9783777443195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2025
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
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(Paperback)
By: Al J. Venter
ISBN: 9781526707826
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Al Venter was rarely conventional in his approach to problems encountered in the Middle East.
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By: Gerry Van Tonder
ISBN: 9781526707864
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2017
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Exclusive first-hand accounts, views and analyses from personal author interviews with individuals who either served or lived in Malaya during the troubles
(Hardback)
By: David Gledhill
ISBN: 9781526704085
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2017
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Focusses on the McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom's role as an air defence fighter.
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By: Timothy Phillips
ISBN: 9781783785766
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th October 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
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A landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain - from the Arctic Circle to Turkey's eastern border - tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy.
(Paperback)
By: Peter Baxter
ISBN: 9781526707901
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Covers the wider dynamic of Cold War engagements over the emerging Middle East crisis
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By: Taylor Downing
ISBN: 9781408710531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A tense, thrilling account of how, in 1983, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly caused global Armageddon.
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By: James C. Goodall
ISBN: 9781472846471
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 13th May 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This pictorial journey will take the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follow the program through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service.
