The epic, courageous, and
disastrous untold stories of the submarine war between the U.S. and
the Soviets, through the eyes of the Russian admirals who commanded
the submarine fleet. Covering submarines from the first
advanced diesel subs in the 1950s to the Kursk in 2000, with the
authority only senior naval officials can deliver, Rising Tide is
the complete story of the Soviet side of the gripping, secret life
of the submariners in the Cold War. Rising Tide tells
the story of one of the most important technological contests in
human history, and does so in a gripping, exciting narrative.
Amazon.
The Cold War hovered over
Americans like a black cloud for more than 40 years. But with the
defeat of Communism in 1991, documents have been released indicating
that the United States might have avoided it. Vladislav Zubok and
Constantine Plashakov reveal that high-level Soviet diplomats
advised Stalin to abandon global confrontation for a partnership
with the United States and Britain to prevent Germany's
resuscitation and to help in the Soviet Union's reconstruction.
Though FDR's death and
Winston Churchill's electoral defeat
complicated the plan, it was the Hiroshima bombing under
Truman that
severed relations. Though later Soviet attempts to reconcile were
thwarted by Khrushchev's hope for a Russian revolution, the authors
remind us that Russia's course does not depend on Russia alone.
Amazon.
In one of the first
comprehensive retellings of the cold war, Norman Friedman offers a
broad survey of events from the end of the Second World War to the
unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. He discusses the
Korean War, the Cuban missile
crisis, Vietnam
War, and so on, not as
discrete incidents--as many other books have done--but as
interconnected confrontations in a long struggle that had to be
fought. The Fifty-Year War is mostly a chronological history,
with a special emphasis on cold-war weapons and technology. The bulk
of the book focuses on the 1950s and 1960s; the 1980s receive only
cursory attention, but they are in some sense the most dramatic, the
moments when the cold war would turn suddenly hot. Still, Friedman
credits Ronald Reagan with being the right man at the right time to
ensure the Soviet Union's defeat. Indeed, the author believes the
Communists were plainly beaten: "The West won the cold war. The
Soviets did not merely lose interest in the competition. They lost
the war, and they paid the usual price of defeat." This is a
sound overview of a titanic struggle, especially its early period. --John
J. Miller Amazon.
The Cold War was the
longest conflict in American history, and the defining event of the
second half of the twentieth century. Since its recent and abrupt
cessation, we have only begun to measure the effects of the Cold War
on American, Soviet, post-Soviet, and international military
strategy, economics, domestic policy, and popular culture. The
Columbia Guide to the Cold War is the first in a series of
guides to American history and culture that will offer a wealth of
interpretive information in different formats to students, scholars,
and general readers alike. This reference contains narrative essays
on key events and issues, and also features an A-to-Z encyclopedia,
a concise chronology, and an annotated resource section listing
books, articles, films, novels, web sites, and CD-ROMs on Cold War
themes.
Unprecedented access to
once top-secret aircraft. Nijboer takes the reader inside the
cockpits of the most revered and feared aircraft of the Cold War
period, from 1947 to 1965. This book covers planes from the United
States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, France and the Soviet Union
including: - The Mikoyan MiG-15 Soviet fighter flown by Kenneth Rowe
(formerly Lt. Kim Sok No), the first pilot to defect to the West
during the Korean War - The
Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star jet fighter
that shot down a MiG-15 in the world's first all-jet battle.
Each featured aircraft includes a pilot perspective on what it was
like to fly these legendary aircraft on combat or reconnaissance
missions written by well-known pilots -- many of them combat
veterans from the Korean and Vietnam wars. Amazon.
In Face to Face with the Bomb,
photographer Paul Shambroom documents the components of America's
nuclear arsenal, and through his series of striking images which
depict the devices and their day-to-day maintenance, he the makes
clear the magnitude of the nuclear reality we have created. Taken
between 1992 and 2001 at military bases in the United States and the
South Pacific, these photographs offer an unprecedented inside look
at the missiles, warheads, bombers, submarines, and command centers
that make up the far-flung nuclear infrastructure of the United
States. Shambroom's full-color prints depict both historic, Cold
War–era weaponry shortly before it was mothballed and new warhead
designs and missile defense prototypes that may be deployed well
into the twenty-first century.
In recent years full
details have gradually begun to emerge about US and British
preparations for defense against Nuclear attack during the cold war.
It as believed that both the civilian and military command could
continue to operate from a nationwide series of underground bunkers.
These bunkers were actually built at enormous expense.
McCamley’s revelations are intriguing in their own right and also
have some disturbing broader implication.
Richard J. Aldrich In what
former U.S. Ambassador to Britain Raymond Seitz calls "a
superlative record of Anglo-American intelligence collection,
cooperation, and competition," noted historian Richard Aldrich
reveals startling new information about the relationship between
Britain and the United States during the Cold War. Making use of the
formidable mass of material recently declassified by the United
States, as well as files released by the British, Aldrich details
the "special relationship" of cooperation between the
British and the Americans, as well as the rampant rancor and
suspicion that followed this public amity. The timing is perfect for
this volume, as interest in secret intelligence soars higher than it
has in years
In this fascinating new
interpretation of Cold War history, John Lewis Gaddis focuses on how
the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get through
more than four decades of Cold War confrontation without going to
war with one another. In this fascinating new interpretation
of Cold War history, John Lewis Gaddis focuses on how the United
States and the Soviet Union have managed to get through more than
four decades of Cold War confrontation without going to war with one
another.
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