Cold wars and proxy conflicts

This collection, comprising key works by James J.

The Second Five-Year Plan of the Development of the U.

The definitive technical guide to the incredible Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and its intelligence-gathering systems.

Few politicians in recent American history are as well-known as Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.

The importance of oil for national military-industrial complexes appeared more clearly than ever in the Cold War.

American-Soviet Relations (1993) is a study of American policy towards the Soviet Union from 1917 to the fall of Communism.

The Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s was one of the most significant events of the Cold War.

Communist East Germany's demolition of Leipzig's perfectly intact medieval University Church in May 1968 was an act decried as "e;cultural barbarism"e; across the two Germanies and beyond.

Lyndon Johnson was often blamed for abandoning Kennedy's vision of development and progress in Latin America in favor of his own domestic concerns: anti-communism and economic stability.

Edward Aitken-Davies (1899-1981) served as an Education Control Officer in the British Zone of occupied Germany from the early summer of 1945 until December 1949.

From an internationally acclaimed expert in the field comes a detailed, analytical and comprehensive account of the worldwide evolution of tanks, from their inception a century ago to the present day.

'A gripping and compelling account.

This volume provides the first study of the history of sinology (aka China studies) as charted across several communist states during the Cold War.

Having suffered military defeat at the hands of advanced Western powers in the 1850s, Russia and Japan embarked upon a program of catch-up and modernization in the late-19th Century.

This documentary history from the UK National Archives captures the evolution of the Cold War through captivating images and declassified documents.

Bringing a fresh perspective to an understudied area, this book offers a critical, source-based examination and assessment of the roles of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (KPG) and the US during World War II in the rebirth of Korea as a nation state.

This book, first published in 1987, examines the elements that constitute the French identity through the experience of the Second World War - a constant point of reference, a landmark to which the collective consciousness returns again and again.

Behind the Fog is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the United States' Cold War radiological weapons program.

A long-time U.

Improvement of Desert Ranges in Soviet Central Asia (1985) examines the progress made in the Soviet Union's attempts to increase desert vegetation without using irrigation or fertilizers.

Während des Kalten Kriegs traf die Schweiz Widerstandsvorbereitungen für den Fall einer Besetzung durch den kommunistischen Ostblock.

Russia and America (1987) examines the divergence between two countries organised on diametrically opposed economic principles - one centrally-planned, state-dominated, the other a highly decentralised market economy, free from significant government intervention.

The Cold War in the Third World explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World.

During the 1970s, American foreign policy faced a predicament of clashing imperatives-US decision makers, already struggling to maintain stability and devise strategic frameworks to guide the exercise of American power during the Cold War, found themselves hampered by the emergence of dilemmas that would come to a head in the post-Cold War era.

Highlights the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War.

This book explores the emergence of ''Third Worldism'' as a new intellectual movement during the era of decolonization and the Cold War.

Explores the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe, the demise of the Soviet Union and the rise of China.

Women from the state socialist countries in Eastern Europe-what used to be called the Second World-once dominated women's activism at the United Nations, but their contributions have been largely forgotten or deemed insignificant in comparison with those of Western feminists.

A detailed history of the Canberra, which saw considerable service as a photo-reconnaissance platform for no fewer than 19 squadrons from the early 1950s through to 2006.

'This extraordinary collection is a game-changer.

Between the closing battles of the Second World War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Cold War cast a shadow over the lives of people throughout the world.

This book is a comprehensive historical study of the Bolshevik system of ideological and political indoctrination of a substantial number of Chinese revolutionaries, who studied in Comintern international institutions in Soviet Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Great Terror of the late 1930s.

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo (1992) is the definitive history and political analysis of this institution.

Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture.

This book explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls throughout the twentieth century.

Turkism and the Soviets (1957) uses Turkish, Russian and Western sources to present a remarkable study of the Turkish world and its importance in international relations.

This book explores how the concept of "e;competition"e;, which is usually associated with market economies, operated under state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where the socialist system, based on command economic planning and state-centred control over society, was supposed to emphasise "e;co-operation"e;, rather than competitive mechanisms.

Beginning in 1943, US Army leaders such as John M.

This book examines the NATO reports on the Soviet bloc's political and economic system, from 1951 to the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the beginning of detente.

In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality.

Sakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went "e;from Empire to Europe"e; and argues rather that, following the Second World War, the key relationship was in fact trans-Atlantic.

This book examines the impact of the Cold War in a global context and focuses on city-scale reactions to the atomic warfare.

Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall.

The Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) in Buenos Aires operated for less than a decade, but by the time of its closure in 1971 it had become the undeniable epicenter of Latin American avant-garde music.

As Marko Dumani writes in his introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War, despite the centrality of gender and sexuality in human relations, their scholarly study has played a secondary role in the history of the Cold War.

Authoritative illustrated analysis of the history of the military Special Forces units of the Soviet Union and Russian Federation.

The book examines Bernard Brodie's strategic and philosophical response to the nuclear age, embedding his work within the classical theories of Carl von Clausewitz.

In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong.

Agricultural Co-operation in the Soviet Union (1929) examines agriculture in the USSR as the government was restructuring all national economic life and enterprise on a state socialist basis.