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Free Download Adam B. Ulam, "Understanding the Cold War: A Historian’s Personal Reflections"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0765808854 | PDF | pages: 433 | 1.8 mb
Understanding the Cold War is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an Olympian assessment of the origins, significant events, and outcome of the Cold War. Professor Ulam describes his hometown, family, and early education, as well as his departure, with his brother, for the U.S. just days before the Nazi invasion of Poland would have trapped them. Then follows reminiscences of his college and Harvard years, all rich with anecdote and insight, and his thoughts as an acknowledged expert on Soviet affairs. The volume offers basic antidotes to simplistic explanations. Whether discussing the Kirov assassination or the Moscow Trials of the so-called Trotskyist Bloc, or the nationalist basis of disputes between China and Russia during the Vietnam War period, Ulam avoids the sensational and the speculative in favor of the the empirical and the evidentiary.

Free Download US Navy Frigates of the Cold War (New Vanguard) by Mark Stille
English | June 24th, 2021 | ISBN: 1472840518 | 48 pages | True EPUB | 14.47 MB
Though they were never the most glamorous of warships, found US Navy frigates were frequently found on the frontlines of the Cold War at sea. These warships were the descendants of World War II’s destroyer escorts, designed primarily to escort convoys. They specialized in anti-submarine warfare, but were intended to be numerous, tough, versatile, and well-armed enough to show US naval power around the world, performing roles that varied from intercepting drug-smugglers to defending aircraft carriers.

Free Download The Royal Navy in the Cold War Years, 1966-1990: Retreat and Revival
by Edward Hampshire
English | August 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1399041231 | 798 pages | EPUB | 22 Mb

Free Download Hiroshi Ichikawa, "Soviet Science and Engineering in the Shadow of the Cold War"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138552453, 0367585227 | PDF | pages: 325 | 4.8 mb
The 1950s were a vital time in the history of science. In accordance with the intensification of the Cold War, many scientific talents were mobilized to several military-related research and development projects not only in the United States, but also in the Soviet Union. Contrary to the expectation of General Leslie Groves, a leader of the Manhattan Project, the Soviet Union succeeded in their nuclear weapon development in a very short time. And then, by the end of the decade, mankind reached the dawn of the Atomic Age proper with the beginning of the operation of the world’s first civil nuclear power plant in Obninsk in 1954. The risky and costly developments of new weapons such as rockets, jet warplanes, and computers were achieved by the Soviet Union in a very short time after World War II in spite of the heavy economic damage caused by the battles with German troops in Soviet territory.

Free Download Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey’s Cold War by Barry Werth
English | August 20th, 2024 | ISBN: 1501153978 | 448 pages | True EPUB | 4.17 MB
The remarkable true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr., a CIA officer captured in China during the Korean War and imprisoned for twenty-one years.

Free Download Into the Cold Blue: My World War II Journeys with the Mighty Eighth Air Force by John F. Homan, Jared Frederick
English | May 14, 2024 | ISBN: 1684515157 | 384 pages | EPUB | 24 Mb
One of the last great memoirs of World War II, Into the Cold Blue is a riveting account of the air war over Europe, when hell was four miles above the earth.

Free Download Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War by Robert L. Beisner
English | October 1, 2006 | ISBN: 0195045785, 019538248X | True EPUB | 800 pages | 4.1 MB
Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era-the decade after World War II when the American Century slipped into high gear. During his vastly influential career, Acheson spearheaded the greatest foreign policy achievements in modern times, ranging from the Marshall Plan to the establishment of NATO.

Free Download Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami by Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
English | April 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1541774574 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 3.85 MB
Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.

Free Download Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami by Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
English | April 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1541774574 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 3.85 MB
Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.

Free Download Cold War Southeast Asia by Malcolm H. Murfett, Ang Cheng Guan, Bruce McFarland Lockhart
English | 2012 | ISBN: 9814382140 | 376 pages | EPUB | 0.60 Mb
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.