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Cold War Saga

Author : Kempton Jenkins
Publisher : Nimble Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 1608880095
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Saga written by Kempton Jenkins and published by Nimble Books LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, historians have dug into the archives, exploring the nuances of how the cold war was fought. But there is no substitute for the first-person testimony of the man who was there--in the pit--in the head-to-head confrontations in Moscow and Berlin and the Third World, in the decades when East and West struggled for supremacy. Kempton Jenkins was there at every turn; his memoir is a unique personal story as well as a valuable document in diplomatic history."-Ernest B. Furgueson, former Bureau Chief of the Baltimore Sun Moscow, Saigon and Washington, DC offices "As a Foreign Service veteran, I know a good FSO when I see one. Kempton Jenkins was one of the best (as he notes, at one point I tried to hire him). "Jenks'" voyage through a varied and stimulating career takes us from Asia to Berlin to Moscow to South America and to three different agencies, State, Commerce and USIA. Each assignment has its special challenges, which come to life under Kempton's facile pen. He highlights the issues and introduces the reader to the players, some good some bad. Yet Kempton demonstrates that our diplomacy worked; we more than coped. We shaped events. Reading his book is the closest you can become to being an FSO during an exciting and crucial period in our diplomacy."-Frank Carlucci "Cold War Saga provides a fascinating insider's view, enriched by personal experience. Jenkins' portraits of key cold war personalities, with whom he worked-Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, Henry Kissinger, and Soviet Ambassador Dobryin-are especially revealing. A great read - Helen Thomas To us veterans of the Cold War's diplomatic front lines, Kempton Jenkins tells it like it was. He names the key players, gives a keen insight into their character, and shows why some were heroes and some villains. Cold War Saga is an absorbing read. If you fought with Jenks in the political trenches it will stir fond memories. If you didn't, it will take you there, and you won't forget where you've been or what was at stake. -Jack F. Matlock, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the USSR, 1987-1991.

The Richard Jackson Saga

Author : Ed Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781953395559
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book The Richard Jackson Saga written by Ed Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1960s, the Cold War intensifies as does Rick's involvement. The KGB and the East Germany Stasi start it, but Rick finishes it. Trying to capture him is one thing, kidnapping Mary is another. With humor, we follow a young man's coming of age in the late 1950s. Starting in the summer before his freshman year it follows him through his high school life and beyond. He finds fame and fortune as an inventor and wealth in Hollywood as he searches for a girlfriend. Wealth and fame prove far easier than girls.As his life at Oxford becomes routine his duties as a Queen's Messenger prove challenging to the extreme.This tongue in cheek saga is all true, give or take a lie or two.

On the Brink

Author : Jay Winik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book On the Brink written by Jay Winik and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping, dramatic narrative of the making and unmaking of foreign policy during the Reagan years is told through the stories of three men and one woman who changed history during one of the world's most decisive and divisive decades. On the Brink also reveals the personal tolls their roles took on these four diplomats, and their contributions to the collapse of communism. 16 photos.

The Cold War Encyclopedia

Author : Thomas D. Parrish
Publisher : Twenty First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805027785
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book The Cold War Encyclopedia written by Thomas D. Parrish and published by Twenty First Century Books. This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes about seven-hundred short entries for people, events, planes, missiles, programs, concepts, and countries involved in any manner with the Cold War

Cold War University

Author : Matthew Levin
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299292835
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Cold War University written by Matthew Levin and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated in the 1950s and 1960s, the federal government directed billions of dollars to American universities to promote higher enrollments, studies of foreign languages and cultures, and, especially, scientific research. In Cold War University, Matthew Levin traces the paradox that developed: higher education became increasingly enmeshed in the Cold War struggle even as university campuses became centers of opposition to Cold War policies. The partnerships between the federal government and major research universities sparked a campus backlash that provided the foundation, Levin argues, for much of the student dissent that followed. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, one of the hubs of student political activism in the 1950s and 1960s, the protests reached their flashpoint with the 1967 demonstrations against campus recruiters from Dow Chemical, the manufacturers of napalm. Levin documents the development of student political organizations in Madison in the 1950s and the emergence of a mass movement in the decade that followed, adding texture to the history of national youth protests of the time. He shows how the University of Wisconsin tolerated political dissent even at the height of McCarthyism, an era named for Wisconsin's own virulently anti-Communist senator, and charts the emergence of an intellectual community of students and professors that encouraged new directions in radical politics. Some of the events in Madison—especially the 1966 draft protests, the 1967 sit-in against Dow Chemical, and the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing—have become part of the fabric of "The Sixties," touchstones in an era that continues to resonate in contemporary culture and politics.

Cold War

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Hourly History
ISBN 13 : 1537584820
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Cold War written by Hourly History and published by Hourly History. This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted from the end of World War II until the end of the 1980s. Over the course of five decades, they never came to blows directly. Rather, these two world superpowers competed in other arenas that would touch almost every corner of the globe. Inside you will read about... ✓ What Was the Cold War? ✓ The Origins of the Cold War ✓ World War II and the Beginning of the Cold War ✓ The Cold War in the 1950s ✓ The Cold War in the 1960s ✓ The Cold War in the 1970s ✓ The Cold War in the 1980s and the End of the Cold War Both interfered in the affairs of other countries to win allies for their opposing ideologies. In the process, governments were destabilized, ideas silenced, revolutions broke out, and culture was controlled. This overview of the Cold War provides the story of how these two countries came to oppose one another, and the impact it had on them and others around the world.

Cold War Southeast Asia

Author : Malcolm H. Murfett
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814382981
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Southeast Asia written by Malcolm H. Murfett and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War II came to an end, a period of distrust settled over the world. Southeast Asia was no different. The spectre of Communism stalked the stage. The threat of a global nuclear war hung thick in the air. The struggle for domination between the Americans and the Russians came up against the burgeoning nationalism of the liberated states. In this highly combustible climate, what was to emerge? This book reveals in fascinating detail, country by country, how the Cold War shaped the destiny of Southeast Asia. The competition among the world powers – the USA, USSR, Britain, China – led to dramatically differing fates for the region. Vietnam was to be the worst affected, effectively destroyed in the clash between superpowers, at tremendous cost to all sides. In Malaya and Singapore, the British fought a long-drawn-out Communist insurgency that broke out in 1948 – an insurgency they saw as part of a consolidated Cold War movement inspired by Moscow or Beijing. But was it? As this volume shows, the states of Southeast Asia were never mere pawns in an international war of ideology. Many local players in fact strategically manipulated Cold War doctrines to their own political advantage – chief among them Indonesia’s Suharto, who played the anti-Communist card with aplomb. Till now, no book has examined this watershed era across the entire region. Cold War Southeast Asia in doing so not only offers a panoramic account of a turning point in SEA history, but also illuminates the global ramifications of the Cold War, and the makings of the world order as we know it today.

Cold Warriors

Author : Duncan White
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062449826
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Cold Warriors written by Duncan White and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and conspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union and the West During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays, and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could also lead to blacklisting, exile, imprisonment, or execution for their authors if they offended those in power. The clandestine intelligence services of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union recruited secret agents and established vast propaganda networks devoted to literary warfare. But the battles were personal, too: friends turned on one another, lovers were split by political fissures, artists were undermined by inadvertent complicities. And while literary battles were fought in print, sometimes the pen was exchanged for a gun, the bookstore for the battlefield. In Cold Warriors, Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was waged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Among those involved were George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John le Carré, Anna Akhmatova, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Gioconda Belli, and Václav Havel. Here, too, are the spies, government officials, military officers, publishers, politicians, and critics who helped turn words into weapons at a time when the stakes could not have been higher. Drawing upon years of archival research and the latest declassified intelligence, Cold Warriors is both a gripping saga of prose and politics, and a welcome reminder that--at a moment when ignorance is all too frequently celebrated and reading is seen as increasingly irrelevant--writers and books can change the world.

The Cold War

Author : Michael Johnson
Publisher : Harmony House Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book The Cold War written by Michael Johnson and published by Harmony House Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the riveting saga of the Cold War, from its tumultuous beginnings to its epochal conclusion. Unveil the geopolitical chessboard of post-World War II as the United States and the Soviet Union ascend as superpowers, igniting tensions that reverberate worldwide. From the Truman Doctrine to the Cuban Missile Crisis, McCarthyism to the Vietnam War, delve into the ideological battlegrounds and proxy conflicts that defined an era. Witness the thaw of détente and the seismic shifts of perestroika, culminating in the historic collapse of the Soviet Union. Experience the legacy and lessons of this epochal standoff, resonating into the 21st century.

The Cold War

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 030748307X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Cold War written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States and the Soviet Union, two national ideological entities, waged proxy wars to determine spheres of influence–and millions of others perished in places like Korea, Vietnam, and Angola, where this cold war flared hot. Such a consideration of the Cold War–as a military event with sociopolitical and economic overtones–is the crux of this stellar collection of twenty-six essays compiled and edited by Robert Cowley, the longtime editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. Befitting such a complex and far-ranging period, the volume’s contributing writers cover myriad angles. John Prados, in “The War Scare of 1983,” shows just how close we were to escalating a war of words into a nuclear holocaust. Victor Davis Hanson offers “The Right Man,” his pungent reassessment of the bellicose air-power zealot Curtis LeMay as a man whose words were judged more critically than his actions. The secret war also gets its due in George Feiffer’s “The Berlin Tunnel,” which details the charismatic C.I.A. operative “Big Bill” Harvey’s effort to tunnel under East Berlin and tap Soviet phone lines–and the Soviets’ equally audacious reaction to the plan; while “The Truth About Overflights,” by R. Cargill Hall, sheds light on some of the Cold War’s best-kept secrets. The often overlooked human cost of fighting the Cold War finds a clear voice in “MIA” by Marilyn Elkins, the widow of a Navy airman, who details the struggle to learn the truth about her husband, Lt. Frank C. Elkins, whose A-4 Skyhawk disappeared over Vietnam in 1966. In addition there are profiles of the war’s “front lines”–Dien Bien Phu, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs–as well as of prominent military and civil leaders from both sides, including Harry S. Truman, Nikita Khrushchev, Dean Acheson, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Richard M. Nixon, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, and others. Encompassing so many perspectives and events, The Cold War succeeds at an impossible task: illuminating and explaining the history of an undeclared shadow war that threatened the very existence of humankind.

The Cold War and Asian Cinemas

Author : Poshek Fu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429757298
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book The Cold War and Asian Cinemas written by Poshek Fu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an interdisciplinary, historically grounded study of Asian cinemas’ complex responses to the Cold War conflict. It situates the global ideological rivalry within regional and local political, social, and cultural processes, while offering a transnational and cross-regional focus. This volume makes a major contribution to constructing a cultural and popular cinema history of the global Cold War. Its geographical focus is set on East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. In adopting such an inclusive approach, it draws attention to the different manifestations and meanings of the connections between the Cold War and cinema across Asian borders. Many essays in the volume have a transnational and cross-regional focus, one that sheds light on Cold War-influenced networks (such as the circulation of socialist films across communist countries) and on the efforts of American agencies (such as the United States Information Service and the Asia Foundation) to establish a transregional infrastructure of "free cinema" to contain the communist influences in Asia. With its interdisciplinary orientation and broad geographical focus, the book will appeal to scholars and students from a wide variety of fields, including film studies, history (especially the burgeoning field of cultural Cold War studies), Asian studies, and US-Asian cultural relations.

The Cold War

Author : Martin Walker
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805034547
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Cold War written by Martin Walker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cold War was more of a global conflict than was either of this century's two major wars; far more than a confrontation between states or even empires, it was, as Martin Walker puts it, "a total war between economic and social systems, an industrial test to destruction."".

The Devil We Knew

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195093773
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book The Devil We Knew written by H. W. Brands and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide ranging survey of U.S. foreign policy from Yalta through the Berlin Wall's collapse.

The Cold War

Author : John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440684502
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Cold War written by John Lewis Gaddis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written.” —The Boston Globe “Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject.” —The New York Times The “dean of Cold War historians” (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why—from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in its drama, The Cold War stands as a triumphant summation of the era that, more than any other, shaped our own. Gaddis is also the author of On Grand Strategy.

The War of Nerves

Author : Martin Sixsmith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639361820
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book The War of Nerves written by Martin Sixsmith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of the Cold War that explores the conflict through the minds of the people who lived through it. More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures—not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts and fears. Drawing on a vast array of untapped archives and unseen sources, Martin Sixsmith vividly recreates the tensions and paranoia of the Cold War, framing it for the first time from a psychological perspective. Revisiting towering, unique personalities like Khrushchev, Kennedy, and Nixon, as well as the lives of the unknown millions who were caught up in the conflict, this is a gripping narrative of the paranoia of the Cold War—and in today's uncertain times, this story is more resonant than ever.

The Cold War

Author : Valerie Bodden
Publisher : The Creative Company
ISBN 13 : 9781583415467
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Cold War written by Valerie Bodden and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the twentieth-century standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, discussing origins, nuclear strategies, and the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The Real History of the Cold War

Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402763021
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Real History of the Cold War written by Alan Axelrod and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the intriguing, suspenseful true story behind the globe-spanning battle of wills between the US and the Soviet Union after the fall of Nazi Germany.