The Cold War

THE SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRÉ 'Riveting, astounding . . . An unputdownable postwar thriller' Observer 'Irre...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024 'An ambitious story of love and betrayal' - Irish Times 'The ending is like a bomb thrown into your ...

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An exciting Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians and the ultimate gift...

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Sovie...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japan, China, and both Tsarist Russia and later the USSR, vied for imperial dominance in Nort...

This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regimes history in the 1970s, and its opening up to the West.It bridges Polands s...

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (195053), this book shows the dynam...

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in As...

This book explores SovietNorth Korean relations during the Cold War (19451991). Based on many primary documents and sources (including Russian and ...

This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s...

North Korea was an important player in the decolonisation of Africa. Freedom fighters across the continent received vital assistance from Pyongyang...

This book shows how international trade was a key part of the classic Western policy of containment towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War in the...

Fazio examines the significance of the US-Australian Korean engagement, 194753, in the evolution of the relationship between the two nations in the...

In this book the experiential history of the Soviet-style social transformation projects between 1945 and 1980 is discussed through the example of ...

James Bond, Ian Flemings irrepressible and ubiquitous spy, is often understood as a Cold Warrior, but James Bonds Cold War diverged from the actual...

Elvis Presley stands tall as perhaps the supreme icon of 20th-century U.S. culture. But he was perceived to be deeply un-American in his early year...

Thinking Otherwise addresses the question of what makes a great historian by exploring the teaching and scholarship of Walter LaFeber, widely accla...

International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in 1950s London. London, 1952. Seven years after the ch...

The presence of Africans in the German Democratic Republic is very rarely thought of in connection with the experience of exile. Instead, Africans ...

This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia established its...

This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia established its...

As the first in a larger series of publications which preserve and make accessible primary sources from various archives and other materials relate...

Mitte der 1960er Jahre trat der Ost-West-Konflikt in eine neue Phase ein. Auf die Konfrontation im Kalten Krieg folgte die antagonistische Kooperat...

Ho Chi Minh explores the life of this globally important twentieth-century figure and offers new insights into his lengthy career, including his of...

This book examines the US foreign policy of differentiation towards the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe as it was implemented by various admini...

The essays and artworks gathered in this volume examine the visual manifestations of postcolonial struggles in art in East and Southeast Asia, as t...

The essays and artworks gathered in this volume examine the visual manifestations of postcolonial struggles in art in East and Southeast Asia, as t...

Thinking Otherwise addresses the question of what makes a great historian by exploring the teaching and scholarship of Walter LaFeber, widely accla...

Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germanys former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold ...

In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in West Berlin and spoke about his first visit to t...

In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including...

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europes east as a socio-...

For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why...

Communism has cast a long shadow over Romania. The passage of little over a quarter of a century since the overthrow in December 1989 of Romanias l...

Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name Détente, and perhaps a c...

James Lockhart blends Chilean, inter-American and transatlantic national, regional and world-historical trends into a century-long Cold War narrati...

This edited volume explores the past, present, and future of the Korean Peninsula, with special focus on South Korea, by connecting developments in...

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europes east as a socio-...