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Free Download Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey’s Cold War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CT13KZ71 | 2024 | 14 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 414 MB
Author: Barry Werth
Narrator: Stephen Graybill
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. John (Jack) Downey, Jr., was a new Yale graduate in the post-World War II years who, like other Yale grads, was recruited by the young CIA. He joined the Agency and was sent to Japan in 1952, during the Korean War. In a violation of protocol, he took part in an air drop that failed and was captured over China. His sources on the ground had been compromised, and his identity was known. Although he first tried to deny who he was, he eventually admitted the truth. But government policy forbade ever acknowledging the identity of spies, no matter the consequences. Washington invented a fictitious cover story and stood by it through four Administrations.

Free Download Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler by R. T. Howard
English | December 28th, 2022 | ISBN: 0192862995 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 1.52 MB
Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum. His name was Adolf Hitler.

Free Download Bodo Mrozek, "Sensory Warfare in the Global Cold War: Partition, Propaganda, Covert Operations "
English | ISBN: 027109740X | 2024 | 264 pages | PDF | 10 MB
The longest political conflict of the twentieth century, the Cold War, was carried out on the human senses―and through them. Largely conducted through nonlethal methods, it was a war of competing cultures, politics, and covert operations. While propaganda reached targets through vision and hearing, sensory warfare also exploited taste, touch, smell, and pain. This volume is the first to explore the sensory aspect of the Cold War and how this warfare changed contemporary perception of the war.

Free Download Cold Region Atmospheric and Hydrologic Studies. The Mackenzie GEWEX Experience: Volume 2: Hydrologic Processes By Ming-ko Woo (auth.), Ming-ko Woo (eds.)
2008 | 508 Pages | ISBN: 3540749276 | PDF | 31 MB
This book presents decade-long advances in atmospheric research in the Mackenzie River Basin in northern Canada, which encompasses environments representative of most cold areas on Earth. Collaborative efforts by a team of about 100 scientists and engineers have yielded knowledge entirely transferable to other high latitude regions in America, Europe and Asia. Emphases are placed on the investigation of processes (including storm genesis, precipitation, moisture and energy fluxes and frost), and the improvement and application of a suite of models and remote sensing to enhance the assessment of climate variability and water resources. This book complements the first volume coming from the GEWEX project, dealing with the region’s atmospheric dynamics. Together these books provide a unique synthesis of atmospheric and hydrological findings and an integrative approach across disciplines in addressing major research issues of cold regions.

Free Download Yakov Feygin, "Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform"
English | ISBN: 0674240995 | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 17 MB
A masterful account of the global Cold War’s decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed.

Free Download Vietnam and the Cold War 1945-1954: French Imperial Decline and Defeat at Dien Bien Phu by John Pike
English | June 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1526789299 | 448 pages | EPUB | 9.70 Mb
A forensic study of Vietnam’s war, imperial history and international relations in the years following the Second World War.

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.