Cold wars and proxy conflicts

Accounts of the relationships between states and terrorist organizations in the Cold War era have long been shaped by speculation, a lack of primary sources and even conspiracy theories.

Murder, madness and military secrets - the Cold War is over, and things are about to get very hot.

'The story reaches out and grabs you by the throat' - Dr Clare Wright, historian and author of The Forgotten Rebels of EurekaThe facts are shocking.

The Vietnamese hilltribes made him a demi-god.

The year is 1949.

An epic story of courage, genius and terrible folly, this is the first history of how the Soviet Union's scientists became both the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world.

**A BIRD IN WINTER - THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM LOUISE DOUGHTY - AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIREJohn Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger.

In A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, Sheldon Anderson uses recently declassified documents from Polish and East German communist party and foreign ministry archives to examine the interplay of national interests with the exigencies of communist party relations within the Soviet bloc during the Cold War.

"e;In a century of horrors, Guatemala from 1954 to the present has been a bloody scene of some of the worst horrors-and the United States has been deeply involved.

During the Vietnam War, the United States embarked on an unusual crusade on behalf of the government of South Vietnam.

When the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) took power after the Second World War, it had a vision for a new and better society in which all humans would live together in peace and prosperity and in which their mutual exploitation would be eliminated.

In Still Seeing Red, John Kenneth White explores how the Cold War molded the internal politics of the United States.

Some of the most active debate about the Vietnam War today is prompted by those who believe that the United States could have won the war either through an improved military strategy or through more.

The collaborative effort of scholars from Russia and the United States, this book reevaluates the history of postwar Eastern Europe from 1944 to 1949, incorporating information gleaned from newly opened archives in Eastern Europe.

In The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa After the Cold War award-winning journalist Mark Huband argues that foreign involvement in Africa has been the single most destructive element in the continent's history.

Prior to the 1980s Honduras was an obscure backwater, of little public or policy concern in the United States.

In A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, Sheldon Anderson uses recently declassified documents from Polish and East German communist party and foreign ministry archives to examine the interplay of national interests with the exigencies of communist party relations within the Soviet bloc during the Cold War.

"e;In a century of horrors, Guatemala from 1954 to the present has been a bloody scene of some of the worst horrors-and the United States has been deeply involved.

During the Vietnam War, the United States embarked on an unusual crusade on behalf of the government of South Vietnam.

When the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) took power after the Second World War, it had a vision for a new and better society in which all humans would live together in peace and prosperity and in which their mutual exploitation would be eliminated.

In Still Seeing Red, John Kenneth White explores how the Cold War molded the internal politics of the United States.

Some of the most active debate about the Vietnam War today is prompted by those who believe that the United States could have won the war either through an improved military strategy or through more.

The collaborative effort of scholars from Russia and the United States, this book reevaluates the history of postwar Eastern Europe from 1944 to 1949, incorporating information gleaned from newly opened archives in Eastern Europe.

In The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa After the Cold War award-winning journalist Mark Huband argues that foreign involvement in Africa has been the single most destructive element in the continent's history.

Prior to the 1980s Honduras was an obscure backwater, of little public or policy concern in the United States.

As memories of the savage conflict inaugurated by the attack on Pearl Harbor recede, the ethical foundations that influenced postwar interpretations of Japan's role during the Cold War era are crumbling on different fronts.

As memories of the savage conflict inaugurated by the attack on Pearl Harbor recede, the ethical foundations that influenced postwar interpretations of Japan's role during the Cold War era are crumbling on different fronts.

In the first volume in this series on the Korean War, North Korea Invades the South, North Korean ground forces, armor and artillery crossed the 38th Parallel, and, in blitzkrieg style, rolled back UN and South Korean forces down the Korean peninsula.

Published in 1999.

Published in 1999.

For over 50 years, the white radomes of the Teufelsberg have been one of Berlin's most prominent landmarks.

For over 50 years, the white radomes of the Teufelsberg have been one of Berlin's most prominent landmarks.

This book examines the international dimensions of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967 to 1974 and uses it as a case study to evaluate the major shifts occurring in the international system during a period of rapid change.

This book examines the international dimensions of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967 to 1974 and uses it as a case study to evaluate the major shifts occurring in the international system during a period of rapid change.

This is the first study to discuss in detail the implementation phase of policy decisions.

The great power rivalry surging across Africa today is a heritage of those European statesmen who a century ago in Berlin ruled straight lines on school atlases to carve up a continent-and whole nations with it-into tidy colonial compartments.

The Catholic Church and the various communist governments of Europe have been vitally involved in the process of detente, moving from the silence of the Cold War to the stage of dialogue despite the persistence of religious persecution in the communist world.

This volume examines the role and influence of the GDR in Eastern Europe, focusing on the changing nature of the German problem and the impact of East Germany on the pattern of relations within the Warsaw alliance from 1967 to the present.

This book reviews the strains between the United States and Great Britain that led to the Cold War as the result of personal characteristics of the leaders of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain as well as of historical and ideological forces.

This book investigates perceptions-including strategic, normative and imagined perceptions-of long-range political goals both in the East and in the West, discussing the arguments which are used to support each of these perceptions.

Berlin has been a central issue in the postwar dispute between East and West and was often the spark that brought the Soviet bloc and the West to the brink of confrontation.

This book contributes to the public discussion of Soviet foreign policy issues by making available some of the information and insights which have resulted from the work of many scholars in this field.

The author cites that this is a study of the nature and origins of the dominant post-war approach to strategic nuclear arms control in an attempt to clarify it, distinguish it from others, and begin to explain the qualities which made it so attractive and eventually so widely accepted.

This book explores the strategies of the global movement to change American nuclear test ban policy at the End of the Cold War, and the sources and nature of the George Bush administration's resistance to change.

During the Polish crisis of 1980-1981, the Western world was uncertain of the Soviet response to turmoil in Poland, and speculation about an invasion was rife.

The great power rivalry surging across Africa today is a heritage of those European statesmen who a century ago in Berlin ruled straight lines on school atlases to carve up a continent-and whole nations with it-into tidy colonial compartments.

This is the first study to discuss in detail the implementation phase of policy decisions.

This volume examines the role and influence of the GDR in Eastern Europe, focusing on the changing nature of the German problem and the impact of East Germany on the pattern of relations within the Warsaw alliance from 1967 to the present.

The Catholic Church and the various communist governments of Europe have been vitally involved in the process of detente, moving from the silence of the Cold War to the stage of dialogue despite the persistence of religious persecution in the communist world.

This book investigates perceptions-including strategic, normative and imagined perceptions-of long-range political goals both in the East and in the West, discussing the arguments which are used to support each of these perceptions.