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Free Download Bob Clarke, "Britain’s Cold War"
English | ISBN: 0752450174 | 2010 | 256 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." So said Winston Churchill in 1946. About to begin was Britain’s most expensive and turbulent periods of military history. The story of Britain’s Cold War deals with all aspects of the chilling time when Britain could have been obliterated so easily by the unleashing of Russian nuclear weapons. The Cold War was like no other conflict yet experienced. More than a struggle between two superpowers, it was a war of ideologies, the capitalist West and the communist East. The Cold War leached its way into every facet of British life to the extent that it was not really considered a war at all. But a war it was. The period was punctuated by an arms race which pushed the world to the edge of destruction, as both East and West amassed arsenals of nuclear weapons far beyond what would be needed to destroy, quite literally, everything.

Free Download Sune Bechmann Pedersen, "Tourism and Travel during the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences across the Iron Curtain "
English | ISBN: 0367192128 | 2019 | 214 pages | EPUB | 1244 KB
The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various levels throughout the Cold War. This book explores how the European tourist industry transcended the ideological fault lines and the communist states attracted an ever-increasing number of Western tourists. Based on extensive original research, it examines the ramifications of tourism, from sun-and-sea package tours to human rights travels, in key Eastern European locations including East Berlin, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Albania. The book’s analysis of the politics, culture, and history of tourism to the East offers important new perspectives on European tourism in the twentieth century.

Free Download A New Cold War: US-China Relations in the 21st Century
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1529227542 | 205 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
Building on a deconstruction of concepts such as cold wars and Cold War, this book illustrates how the relationship between the US and China has been a "marriage of convenience" – with both cooperation and competition – for years, but also that we might be close to the end of it. The US and China, it is argued, are locked in a "new type of cold war" where mechanisms of deterrence and competition differ compared to those of the Cold War, and which makes the return of bloc politics possible.

Free Download The Post-cold War World (Political and Diplomatic History of the Modern World) by Bailey Maxim
English | July 30, 2016 | ISBN: 1680483579 | EPUB | 11 Mb
The post-Cold War era began with a decade of conflicts often mediated by the United States as the world’s only remaining superpower. The September 11 terrorist attacks, however, marked the dawning of a new era. The United States became preoccupied by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while around the world, new challenges and threats emerged: a more assertive Russia, an increasingly powerful China, dangerous terrorism organizations, and a refugee crisis in the Middle East that spilled into Europe. The story of this fraught era, in which the world was beset by millennial anxiety and destabilized by geopolitical shifts in the balance of power, is told here with great insight and a sure understanding of the complex interplay of action and reaction that characterized the proliferation of conflicts at the turn of the 21st century.

Free Download Christoph Becker-Schaum, "The Nuclear Crisis: The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s "
English | ISBN: 1785332678 | 2016 | 392 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment, the episode was a decisive one for German society, revealing deep divisions in the nation’s political culture while continuing to mobilize activists. This volume provides a comprehensive reference work on the "Euromissiles" crisis as experienced by its various protagonists, analyzing NATO’s diplomatic and military maneuvering and tracing the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles’ deployment in East and West Germany.

Free Download Aryo Makko, "Ambassadors of Realpolitik: Sweden, the CSCE and the Cold War "
English | ISBN: 1785332848 | 2016 | 300 pages | PDF | 3 MB
During the Cold War, Sweden actively cultivated a reputation as the "conscience of the world," working to build bridges between East and West and embracing a nominal commitment to international solidarity. This groundbreaking study explores the tension between realism and idealism in Swedish diplomacy during a key episode in Cold War history: the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, culminating in the 1975 Helsinki Accords. Through careful analysis of new evidence, it offers a compelling counternarrative of this period, showing that Sweden strategically ignored human rights violations in Eastern Europe and the nonaligned states in its pursuit of national interests.

Free Download Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels by Caroline Eden
English | January 14, 2025 | ISBN: 1526658984 | 256 pages | PDF | 4.80 Mb
From the author of Red Sands, a New Yorker "Best Cookbook of the Year," a cozy, thoughtful memoir recalling food and travel in Eastern Europe and Central Asia from a basement Edinburgh kitchen, featuring a delicious recipe at the end of each chapter.

Free Download Vietnam and the Cold War 1945-1954: French Imperial Decline and Defeat at Dien Bien Phu
by John Pike
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1526789299 | 578 Pages | PDF | 12.7 MB

Free Download Out of Place: Coming of Age in Cold War West Germany by Mary E. McKnight
English | December 3, 2024 | ISBN: 1647427266 | 384 pages | EPUB | 2.44 Mb
For fans of coming-of-age narratives and feminist journeys, an empowering tale of one teen’s quest to establish her own voice as an Army Brat living in Cold War-era West Germany.

Free Download The Cold Case Foundation: How a Team of Experts Solves Murders and Missing Persons Cases by Gregory M. Cooper, Thomas McHoes
English | December 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 149308464X | 249 pages | True PDF | 0.78 MB
Follow the most riveting cases of an elite investigative team of volunteers brought together by a famed FBI Profiler dedicated to solving crimes no one else could