Cold wars and proxy conflicts

“The Greatest War Story of All – Takes rank with All Quiet on the Western Front.

The sixteen-year-long war in Mozambique between the Frelimo government and Renamo rebels remains one of the most overlooked and misunderstood of the conflicts that raged across Africa during the height of the Cold War.

In 'Abolishing the Taboo', Brian Madison Jones takes a new look at the integral role played by Dwight D.

With heightened tensions mounting in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower's request for more accurate intelligence information on the Soviet Union was the spark that ignited the U-2 project.

This book breaks new ground in the history of anthropology, opening up an explicit examination of anthropology in the Cold War era.

This book analyses the causes of armed conflicts in Southern Africa during the Cold War.

This oral history presents the firsthand stories and memories of Britain's last living WWI veterans-complete with then and now photographs.

Using the veterans own words and photographs, the book brings to life a mixture of their excitement of embarkation for France, their unbound optimism and courage, the agony of the trenches, and numbing fear of going over the top.

The war on Western Front from 1914 to 1918 remains one of the notoriously great tragedies of the twentieth century.

Based on interviews with survivors of German WWI prison camps, this account documents the heroism and perseverance of British troops in captivity.

This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front.

The Battle of the Lys, fought in April 1918, was critical for the Allies and for Germany.

Simon Joness graphic history of underground warfare during the Great War uses personal reminiscences to convey the danger and suspense of this unconventional form of conflict.

Donald Dean lied about his age to enlist in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and serve on the Western Front, where he worked his way up from Private to acting Captain.

The WWI military expert presents his authoritative study of the German Army's operations during the First Battle of Ypres.

Atomic postcards played an important role in creating and disseminating a public image of nuclear power.

It was long assumed that the Soviet Union dictated Warsaw Pact policy in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America (known as the 'Third World' during the Cold War).

It was long assumed that the Soviet Union dictated Warsaw Pact policy in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America (known as the 'Third World' during the Cold War).

Italy played a vital role in the Cold War dynamics that shaped the Middle East in the latter part of the 20th century.

Italy played a vital role in the Cold War dynamics that shaped the Middle East in the latter part of the 20th century.

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This book delivers crucial historical background in these times, as bloc-building returns to the global economy and China and Russia massively intensify their economic cooperation.

Although it was characterized by simmering international tensions, the early Cold War also witnessed dramatic instances of reconciliation between states, as former antagonists rebuilt political, economic, and cultural ties in the wake of the Second World War.

The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities.

Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations.

During the First World War, the Jewish population of Central Europe was politically, socially, and experientially diverse, to an extent that resists containment within a simple historical narrative.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the educational systems in Spain and Latin America underwent comprehensive and ambitious reforms that took place amid a "e;revolution of expectations"e; arising from decolonization, global student protests, and the antagonism between capitalist and communist models of development.

In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the victors were unable to agree on Germany s fate, and the separation of the country the result of the nascent Cold War emerged as a de facto, if provisional, settlement.

Among postwar political leaders, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt played one of the most significant roles in reconciling Germans with other Europeans and in creating the international framework that enabled peaceful reunification in 1990.

The fall of the Berlin Wall is typically understood as the culmination of political-economic trends that fatally weakened the East German state.

From its emergence out of the ashes of World War II through to the economic and political challenges of today, Austria has embodied many of the contradictions of recent European history.

This book discusses how societies, groups and individuals remember and make sense of global neoliberal change in Eastern Europe.

This book discusses how societies, groups and individuals remember and make sense of global neoliberal change in Eastern Europe.

The West African National Secretariat (WANS) has almost been forgotten by history.

The West African National Secretariat (WANS) has almost been forgotten by history.

There has been a shift in the way that we understand the forces behind imperialism.

There has been a shift in the way that we understand the forces behind imperialism.

Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War examines the hitherto unexplored history of secret intelligence cooperation between three asymmetric partners specifically the UK, US and Turkey from the end of the Second World War until the Turkey's first military coup d' tat on 27 May 1960.

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The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence.

Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War examines the hitherto unexplored history of secret intelligence cooperation between three asymmetric partners specifically the UK, US and Turkey from the end of the Second World War until the Turkey's first military coup d' tat on 27 May 1960.

At the height of the Cold War, the John F.