The Cold War

This second volume, focusing on 1945-1991, unpacks the reasons for the Cold War and takes the reader through its ebbs, flows and unexpected end. Ho...

These volumes present a compact analytical narrative of 20th century international politics penned by some of Russias most distinguished historians...

The Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage crystallized and intersected with political and social dynamic...

With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the ...

Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade-and its devastating consequences for workers around the w...

This book challenges the standard orthodox and neo-revisionist accounts of the origins of the Cold War, which portray the West as containing an exp...

'This exciting and provocative book blows apart misconceptions about the Russian past' Lara Douds, Times Higher Education Russia is an exceptional...

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most contro...

This book discusses how the USA has launched a new cold war against China.Showing how this New Cold War can only be fully understood by analysing t...

This book highlights multiple perspectives related to the Cold War presented by scholars from almost all continents. They discuss a variety of cons...

At the dawn of the supersonic jet age, aircraft designers were forced to devise radical new planforms that suited the new power of the jet engine. ...

In 1960, SACs B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold Wars most challen...

Examining how horror and science fiction films from the 1950s to the present invent and explore fictional us-versus-them scenarios, this book analy...

Examining how horror and science fiction films from the 1950s to the present invent and explore fictional us-versus-them scenarios, this book analy...

This innovative, interdisciplinary and international collection of essays offers fresh perspectives on the history of global diplomacy. Experts in ...

A new analysis of the technology and tanks that faced off against each other on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, during the very height of the C...

The runaway #1 New York Times bestseller'A ripping read. . . . The parallels to the present day are strong, even startling' New York Times'A chilli...

The first in-depth account of the historic diplomatic agreement that served as a blueprint for ending the Cold War The Helsinki Final Act was a wa...

In the Cold War, development was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned w...

BRIXMIS (The British Commander-in-Chiefs Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most little-known elite spying ...

How democratic regimes should engage with authoritarian regimes, or self-proclaimed authorities in states under occupation, has long been a subject...

After the khurbn (destruction) perpetrated by Nazi Germany, its allies, and collaborators, the Yiddish communities in Eastern Europe were shattered...

The unbelievable true story of the Cold Wars strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. The liveliness of Mohn...

The book assesses the strains within the Special Relationship between London and Washington and offers a new perspective on the limits and successe...

Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists attempts, successfu...

Roswell, 1947. Washington, DC, 1952. Quarouble, 1954. New Hampshire, 1961. Pascagoula, 1973. Petrozavodsk, 1977. Copley Woods, 1983. Explore how si...

This book offers a descriptive analysis of the Soviet/Russian wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Georgia, as well as an in-depth exploration of the...

The Cold War is over - yet signs of it still exist. For forty years, the Iron Curtain divided the countries of Europe into East and West. The arm...

The women of the Socialist/Communist Unione Donne Italiane (UDI) and the lay Catholic Centro Italiano Femminile (CIF) are the protagonists in this ...

Asian American Literature in Transition Volume Three: 19651996 offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the political and aesthetic stakes of what...

The untold history of the British occupation of Germany, told through the eyes of the people who were there. In the spring of 1945, a British civi...

A study of the Soviet and NATO armored forces that faced each other off in Central Europe in the early Cold War, and how their technology, tactics,...

Printing terror takes a fascinating look at American horror comics in the Cold War era, from the 1940s to the 1970s. It reveals how these comics bo...

The sensational true story behind the major TV drama series, The Trial of Christine Keeler, performed by Sophie CooksonIn her own words, the life ...

The Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria (FAR), one of the most powerful and little-publicised air forces in the Americas, had Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) fighte...

A gripping and compelling account. The peaceful ending of the Cold War between West and East remains one of the greatest achievements ...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the French government cultivated images of sensual and sophisticated white French women in an attempt to ...

Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature. Exploring published and archival writings, the...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the French government cultivated images of sensual and sophisticated white French women in an attempt to ...