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The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned by John Strausbaugh 9781541703346
RRP: $63.00$38.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541703346Author John StrausbaughFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs -
Double Bind: The Political Power of Psychedelics by Vanessa Meloche 9781777669423
RRP: $27.28$18.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777669423Author Vanessa MelocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Vanessa MelochePublisher Vanessa MelocheWeight(grams) 108g -
Spooks in the Woods: A Picture Memoir of Cold War Berlin by Jon M (Mike) Storie 9781648040511
RRP: $153.30$91.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648040511Author Jon M (Mike) StorieFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 898g -
Containing History: How Cold War History Explains US-Russia Relations by Stephen P. Friot 9780806191904
RRP: $62.90$49.92In 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... -
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall 9781529920017
RRP: $23.08$16.32The 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**'So entertaining' THE TIMES'Cracking' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Impossible to believe, just as hard to put... -
The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo 9781847927804
RRP: $31.48$24.47A dramatic and intensely moving reconstruction of the greatest border breach in Cold War history and its tumultuous aftermath. In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable: they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron... -
Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War by Jessica M. Chapman 9780813197623
$59.81Between 1945 and 1965, more than fifty nations declared their independence from colonial rule. At the height of the Cold War, the global process of decolonization complicated US-Soviet relations, while Soviet and American interventionism transformed the... -
Bubbleheads, SEALs and Wizards: America's Scottish Bastion in the Cold War by D.G. Mackay 9781849955546
RRP: $39.88$32.87The 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... -
Unraveling the Gray Area Problem: The United States and the INF Treaty by Luke Griffith 9781501773068
RRP: $107.10$92.11In Unraveling the Gray Area Problem, Luke Griffith examines the US role in why the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty took almost a decade to negotiate and then failed in just thirty years. The INF Treaty enhanced Western security by... -
Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War by Jessica M. Chapman 9780813197487
$125.85Between 1945 and 1965, more than fifty nations declared their independence from colonial rule. At the height of the Cold War, the global process of decolonization complicated US-Soviet relations, while Soviet and American interventionism transformed the... -
A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War by Sandrine Kott 9780231210140
RRP: $245.70$187.74The 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... -
Arming East Asia: Deterring China in the Early Cold War by Eric Setzekorn
RRP: $67.10$55.44Arming East Asia: Deterring China in the Early Cold War examines President Eisenhower’s mutual security program in East Asia and explains how that administration worked to contain China. This historical chronicle offers insights and perspectives... -
Dreams for a Decade: International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War by Stephanie L. Freeman
RRP: $84.00$78.04During the 1980s, millions of ordinary individuals around the world mobilized in support of nuclear disarmament. Although U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev were not part of these grassroots movements, they too... -
The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966 by Frank Gerits
RRP: $128.10$108.72In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anticolonial modernization project. Rather than choose Cold War sides between East and West, anticolonial nationalists worked to reverse... -
Secret Warriors: British Submarines in the Cold War Dr Paul Brown 9781472865120
RRP: $94.50$80.33A highly illustrated history of the Cold War operations of the submarines of the Royal Navy from 1948 to 1990. The Cold War was a period of intense activity for submarines of the Royal Navy, with many hair-raising incidents involving Soviet vessels...