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The CIA: An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford 9781399816847
RRP: £25.00£16.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall 9781529920017
RRP: £10.99£7.77The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo**A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and A GUARDIAN BEST PAPERBACK FOR APRIL 2024 **'So entertaining' THE TIMES'Cracking' SUNDAY... -
Oxford Revise: GCSE Edexcel History: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 by Aaron Wilkes 9781382040433
RRP: £5.99£4.67Oxford Revise Edexcel GCSE History: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 is a complete revision and practice book covering the full topic specification. Revise everything you need to know for this choice of period topic in the GCSE Edexcel... -
Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains by J Michael Waller 9781684513536
RRP: £29.99£19.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684513536Author J Michael WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 712gDimensions(mm) 235mm... -
Dead Man's Hand by Brad Taylor 9781837933303
RRP: £9.99£7.46The gripping new thriller by New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor. Pike Logan investigates a threat to a key European ally... and discovers a secret that could lead to world annihilation. To finally end the war between their nations, a band... -
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall
RRP: £22.00£15.62*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo'So entertaining' The Times 'Cracking' Sunday TelegraphThe atomic bombs of 1945 changed war forever... -
A Very Simple Secret: My parents, their mission to change the world, and me by Judi Conner 9781805141624
RRP: £12.99£9.09Judi's parents were on a mission to remake the world. These were the Cold War years of the 1950s and '60s, following a catastrophic world war and the breaking up of colonial empires. The couple had joined many others in giving up conventional careers and... -
The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo 9781847927798
RRP: £22.00£15.62A gripping reconstruction of the world-changing day when hundreds of East Germans broke across the border to the West, leading to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. 'Engrossing and dramatic . . . captivating' William Boyd, New Statesman'Intensely moving'... -
The Umbrella Murder: The Hunt for the Cold War's Most Notorious Killer by Ulrik Skotte 9780753560167
RRP: £25.00£18.02London, September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge with what appears to be a poison-tipped umbrella. It would become the most infamous unsolved killing of the Cold War.Many years later, young... -
Chobham Armour: Cold War British Armoured Vehicle Development by William Suttie
RRP: £35.00£26.73A comprehensive overview of the work of the Military Vehicles Research and Development Establishment on Chobham Common, which provided armoured vehicles for the British Army from 1945 to its close in 2004. Through much of World War II British tanks... -
Hawker's Secret Projects: Cold War Aircraft That Never Flew by Christopher Budgen 9781399047906
£30.35Hawker Aircraft Ltd at Kingston was arguably the most successful and long-lasting manufacturer of military aircraft in Great Britain and Europe. In its various evolved manifestations – Hawker Aircraft, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, British Aerospace – its... -
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power by Sergey Radchenko 9781108477352
RRP: £30.00£20.91What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the... -
Bubbleheads, SEALs and Wizards: America's Scottish Bastion in the Cold War by D.G. Mackay 9781849955546
RRP: £18.99£15.65The American military presence in Scotland during the Cold War was greater than in either of the World Wars, bringing with it the largest peace-time number of foreign military personnel in Scotland’s history. This military power was delivered by... -
SR-71 Blackbird Paul F. Crickmore 9781472813152
RRP: £9.99£7.11Lockheed's SR-71 Blackbird is one of the most iconic and famous jets ever built. Assembled in secret at Lockheed's Skunkworks, the Blackbird's vital statistics remain phenomenal decades later. It holds the airspeed record for a manned jet aircraft,... -
The F-100 Units of USAFE by Doug Gordon 9781781559109
RRP: £36.00£26.06The North American F-100 Super Sabre served with the United States Air Forces in Europe for a total of sixteen years at the height of the Cold War. The primary mission of the USAFE units that flew the 'hun' was the delivery of tactical nuclear weapons on... -
The Umbrella Murder: The Hunt for the Cold War's Most Notorious Killer by Ulrik Skotte 9780753560174
RRP: £16.99£13.25London, September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge with what appears to be a poison-tipped umbrella. It would become the most infamous unsolved killing of the Cold War.Many years later, young... -
The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together by Michael Smith
RRP: £25.00£18.02'Fascinating analysis' Nigel West; 'Grippingly told, authoritative' Mail on Sunday; 'Meticulously researched...a remarkably good read' John Brennan, former CIA Director; 'Excellent...a detailed, highly professional account' Sir John Scarlett, former MI6... -
Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 by Daniel Cowling 9781800243507
RRP: £27.99£20.01Germany, spring 1945. Hitler is dead and his armies crushed. Across the conquered Reich, cities lie devastated by Allied saturation bombing; their traumatised populations, exhausted and embittered by defeat, face a future of acute privation and hardship... -
Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism by Peter Molloy
RRP: £15.99£11.61There was life before the fall.1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life... -
The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together by Michael Smith 9781471186813
RRP: £12.99£8.18'Fascinating analysis' Nigel West; 'Grippingly told, authoritative' Mail on Sunday; 'Meticulously researched...a remarkably good read' John Brennan, former CIA Director; 'Excellent...a detailed, highly professional account' Sir John Scarlett, former MI6... -
Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle by Matthew H. Hersch 9780262546720
RRP: £43.00£29.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546720Author Matthew H. HerschFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Berlin: The Story of a City by Barney White-Spunner
RRP: £25.00£17.62'My only complaint is that it was so fascinating I wish it had been longer. What a story!' Philip Mansel BERLIN is Europe's most fascinating and exciting city. The great movements that have shaken Europe, from the Reformation to Marxism, have their... -
Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 by Marina Frolova-Walker 9780197566336
RRP: £12.99£11.47The book is devoted to Shostakovich's most controversial symphony, composed at the height of Stalin's Purges. It rescued Shostakovich from official disfavour and deeply moved audiences. The critics recognized it as a masterpiece, but they were perplexed... -
Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus' Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption by Ion Mihai Pacepa 9780895267467
RRP: £19.99£13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895267467Author Ion Mihai PacepaFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Regnery Gateway Inc.,U.S.Publisher Regnery Gateway Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950 by Kimmo Rentola 9780300273618
RRP: £25.00£20.92A dramatic and timely account of Stalin's failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed In November 1939, Stalin directed his military leaders to launch an invasion of Finland. In what became known as... -
Flashpoints: Air Warfare in the Cold War by Michael Napier
RRP: £35.00£25.89From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the aerial fighting in the flashpoints of the Cold War. The Cold War years were a period of unprecedented peace in Europe, yet they also saw a number of localised... -
NATO and Warsaw Pact Tanks of the Cold War by Green, Michael 9781399004312
RRP: £25.00£17.62Led by the USA with Western European partners, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 to counter the Soviet threat. In response the Soviet Union assembled and dominated the Warsaw Pact in 1954. The mainstay of both alliances'... -
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 by David Blackbourn
RRP: £40.00£30.21With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification-and revealing a... -
In Cold War Skies: NATO and Soviet Air Power, 1949-89 by Michael Napier
RRP: £35.00£24.17Throughout the second half of the 20th century, international relations across the globe were dominated by the Cold War. From 1949 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, US and Soviet strategic forces were deployed across the Arctic Ocean in North... -
Soviet T-54 Main Battle Tank by James Kinnear
RRP: £30.00£21.35A highly illustrated study of the T-54 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years of the Cold War. The menacing silhouette of the T-54 tank prowling down streets of Eastern European capitals or... -
Soviet T-62 Main Battle Tank by James Kinnear
RRP: £30.00£21.95A highly illustrated study of the T-62 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years of the Cold War. The T-62 is one of the most widespread tanks used by the Soviets during the Cold War. Developed from... -
Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank by James Kinnear
RRP: £30.00£21.95A highly illustrated study of the T-55 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years of the Cold War. The T-55 is one of the most iconic weapons created by the Soviets during the Cold War and also one... -
A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War by Sandrine Kott 9780231210157
RRP: £30.00£23.29The post-World War II period is typically seen as a time of stark division, an epochal global conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. But beneath the surface, the postwar era witnessed a striking degree of international cooperation. The... -
Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World by Jeremy Friedman 9780674244313
RRP: £30.95£24.82A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... -
Sensory Warfare in the Global Cold War: Partition, Propaganda, Covert Operations Bodo Mrozek 9780271097404
£117.34The 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... -
Spooks in the Woods: A Picture Memoir of Cold War Berlin by Jon M (Mike) Storie
RRP: £79.00£44.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648040528Author Jon M (Mike) StorieFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 1184g -
The Kremlin's Confidant: How a British Naval Officer Suspended the Cold War by David S. Tonge 9781399059381
RRP: £25.00£17.62_Martin Packard is an extraordinary man who has led an extraordinary life. An idealist and a man of liberal instincts, his enthusiasms resulted in him having an inside track in several major events of recent decades, including the coup and bloody... -
The American Surveillance State: How the U.S. Spies on Dissent David H. Price (Saint Martin's University) 9780745346014
RRP: £14.99£9.80When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post 9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and government agencies and corporations use computers to monitor our... -
The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain by Brian K. Goodman
RRP: £37.95£30.51How risky encounters between American and Czech writers behind the Iron Curtain shaped the art and politics of the Cold War and helped define an era of dissent."In some indescribable way, we are each other's continuation," Arthur Miller wrote of the... -
Containing History: How Cold War History Explains US-Russia Relations by Stephen P. Friot 9780806191904
RRP: £29.95£22.98In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with U.S.-Russia relations approaching a breaking point, this book provides a key to understanding how we got here. Specifically, Stephen P. Friot asks, how do Russians and Americans think...