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41. The New Silk Road Diplomacy: China's Central Asian Foreign Policy since the Cold War (Contemporary Chinese Studies 1206-9523) by Hasan H. Karrar | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(2010-07-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Hasan H. Karrar is a visiting scholar at the Asian Institute, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. |
42. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David Hoffman | |
Paperback: 608
Pages
(2010-08-03)
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The Dead Hand by David Hoffman
Wow!What a shocking piece of work.
Richly detailed, with some frightening content
A Stunning Tour de Force
'Dead Hand' is a lively and thought-provoking read. |
43. Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy by Andrew J. Kirkendall | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(2010-10-06)
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44. On the Front Lines of the Cold War: An American Correspondent's Journal from the Chinese Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam (From Our Own Correspondent) by Seymour Topping | |
Hardcover: 435
Pages
(2010-03-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description At the close of World War II, Topping--who had served as an infantry officer in the Pacific--reported for the International News Service from Beijing and Mao's Yenan stronghold before joining the Associated Press in Nanking, Chiang Kai-shek's capital. He covered the Chinese Civil War for the next three years, often interviewing Nationalist and Communist commanders in combat zones. Crossing Nationalist lines, Topping was captured by Communist guerrillas and tramped for days over battlefields to reach the People's Liberation Army as it advanced on Nanking. The sole correspondent on the battlefield during the decisive Battle of the Huai-Hai, which sealed Mao's victory, Topping later scored a world-wide exclusive as the first journalist to report the fall of the capital. In 1950, Topping opened the Associated Press bureau in Saigon, becoming the first American correspondent in Vietnam. In 1951, John F. Kennedy, then a young congressman on a fact-finding visit to Saigon, sought out Topping for a briefing. Assignments in London and West Berlin followed, then Moscow and Hong Kong for the New York Times. During those years Topping reported on the Chinese intervention in the Korean conflict, Mao's Cultural Revolution and its preceding internal power struggle, the Chinese leader's monumental ideological split with Nikita Khrushchev, the French Indochina War, America's Vietnam War, and the genocides in Cambodia and Indonesia. He stood in the Kremlin with a vodka-tilting Khrushchev on the night the Cuban missile crisis ended and interviewed Fidel Castro in Havana on its aftermath. Throughout this captivating chronicle, Topping also relates the story of his marriage to Audrey Ronning, a world-renowned photojournalist and writer and daughter of the Canadian ambassador to China. As the couple traveled from post to post reporting on some of the biggest stories of the century in Asia and Eastern Europe, they raised five daughters. In an epilogue, Topping cites lessons to be learned from the Asia wars which could serve as useful guides for American policymakers in dealing with present-day conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. From China to Indochina, Burma to Korea and beyond, Topping did more than report the news; he became involved in international diplomacy, enabling him to gain extraordinary insights. In On the Front Lines of the Cold War, Topping shares these insights, providing an invaluable eyewitness account of some of the pivotal moments in modern history. Customer Reviews (5)
Great book, misleading title
On the Front Lines of the Cold War
Truly on the front lines of history
a brilliant chronicle ofa complex historical period
An Excellent and Detailed Chronicle of a Complex Time |
45. The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History (The American History Series) by Ralph B. Levering | |
Paperback: 212
Pages
(2005-01-30)
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Cold war no more |
46. The Cold War on the Periphery by Robert J. McMahon | |
Hardcover: 431
Pages
(1996-04-15)
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The Limits of Power For those individuals concerned with South Asian politics, this book is a must read.
I wish i could have given it Zero Stars
Good Research, Bad Reasoning
This is a well written Book, but the author is biased!
Provides an indepth understanding of US policy towards India |
47. Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture by Annabel Jane Wharton | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(2004-03-02)
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Hotels as Armaments Wharton has done an excellent job of giving a broad history of the overseas Hilton, while giving case studies of specific ones.The Istanbul Hilton, for instance, had all the usual amenities, like lawns (completely foreign to the area), tennis courts, and a swimming pool.It had the extraordinary feature, common in foreign Hiltons, of iced water piped into every room.However, the marquee covering cars that drove up to the entrance was a wavy horizontal structure that was referred to as the "flying carpet."The interior lobby had a series of domes in the ceiling, a bow to mosque designs, and there were teakwood screens and Turkish carpets.Work by local artisans decorated the public spaces.Nonetheless, you can see in the pictures (and in this book, there are many useful ones) that the Istanbul Hilton is still a concrete, metal, and glass box like nothing else around it.Old hotels concentrated on public rooms inside; the Hiltons looked out, with lots of glass in every room to supply a view.The view was carefully chosen.In Istanbul, it faced East, toward the Soviet Union, daring those Commies to look American modernity and wealth in the eyes. Wharton is a historian of medieval art.Her family used some of these hotels when she was growing up, and she has returned to them to give an architectural history of the Hilton overseas effort.(She could not visit two Hiltons now lost, the one in Havana and the one in Tehran.)It is a remarkable history, no longer active because the Cold War is over, and because others followed Hiltons into the modernism market.The Hilton hotels still exist, but they are just hotels now, not unique as architecture nor as Cold War armaments.They shaped the way American visitors viewed foreign capitals, and boosted American economic (and therefore political) policies.Conrad Hilton may not have won the Cold War, but he did more than plenty of the generals.
Conrad and Communism |
48. The Great Cold War: A Journey Through the Hall of Mirrors (Stanford Security Studies) by Gordon Barrass | |
Hardcover: 496
Pages
(2009-01-26)
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PROBABLY THE BEST BOOK ABOUTTHE COLD WAR!!!!
Stellar Acomplishment |
49. Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics (Cambridge Essential Histories) by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr | |
Hardcover: 264
Pages
(2006-09-04)
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Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics (Cambridge Essential Histories)
Finally, the truth about Soviet espionage in America
Yes, Virginia, there really were hundreds of Communist spies
History of the Trials, and Subsequent Revelations |
50. The Real History of the Cold War: A New Look at the Past (Real History Series) by Alan Axelrod | |
Hardcover: 464
Pages
(2009-12-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description The newest entry in Alan Axelrod’s engaging, successful Real History series—and the only current illustrated book on a misunderstood and mysterious topic. From the fall of Nazi Germany to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a cold war raged between the US and the Soviet Union. Though not a shot was fired, the hostility between the two superpowers threatened the globe with nuclear annihilation. Axelrod reveals the intriguing, suspenseful true story behind this globe-spanning battle of wills, and as always, he’s created a study that’s authoritative, comprehensive, and a pleasure to read. Judiciously, incisively, he probes the pivotal events of the era: the Marshall Plan; the iron curtain; the Berlin airlift; the Cuban missile crisis; the rise and fall of Joesph McCarthy; the Korean War; the Vietnam War; the arms race. Rarely seen illustrations, detail-packed sidebars, maps, stats, quotes, alternate takes, and “reality checks” to popular myths make this a work general readers will turn to and enjoy. Customer Reviews (3)
A must for people unfamiliar with the subject
Entartaining but inaccurate
Entertaining, but errors galore and history from a liberal revisionist slant |
51. Eyes in the Sky: Eisenhower, the CIA and Cold War Aerial Espionage by Dino A. Brugioni | |
Hardcover: 466
Pages
(2010-03-15)
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Insiders perspective on how aerial reconnaissance shaped world politics
Quite detailed yet not tedious
An Invaluable Contribution to the Story of Cold War Aerial Reconnaissance
Stories from an Imagery Domain Expert
The Cold War from Above |
52. Origins of the Cold War: An International History (Rewriting Histories) | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2005-06-13)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Cold War dominated the world political arena for forty-five years. Focusing on the international system and on events in all parts of the globe, Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter have brought together a truly international collection of articles that provide a fresh and comprehensive analysis of the origins of the Cold War. Moving beyond earlier controversies, this edited collection focuses on the interaction between geopolitics and threat perception, technology and strategy, ideology and social reconstruction, national economic reform and patterns of international trade, and decolonization and national liberation. The editors also consider how and why the Cold War spread from Europe to Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America and how groups, classes and elites used the Cold War to further their own interests. This second edition includes the newest research from the Communist side of the Cold War and the most recent debates on culture, race and the role of intelligence analysis. Also included is a completely new section dealing with the Cold War crises in Iran, Turkey and Greece and a guide to further reading. |
53. A Cold War Legacy, A Tribute to Strategic Air Command, 1946-1992 by Alwyn T. Lloyd | |
Hardcover: 704
Pages
(2000-01-15)
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Comprehensive History
Dry, but I learned quite a bit...
Oh, how I wish for a return of SAC... and its weapons
What a book...
SAC was great, and this is a great SAC book |
54. Depression, War, and Cold War: Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity (Independent Studies in Political Economy) by Robert Higgs | |
Paperback: 352
Pages
(2009-05-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Offering a powerful interpretation of U.S. political economy from the early-1930s to the end of the Cold War, this resource refutes many popular myths about the Great Depression and New Deal, the World War II economy, and the postwar national-security state that is still so pervasive today. What accounts for the extraordinary duration of the Great Depression? How did the war alter relations between government and leaders of big business? What is Congress’s role in the military-industrial-congressional complex? This book answers these and other crucial questions by presenting new insights and analyses along with statistical evidence that defies mainstream interpretation of economic history. Customer Reviews (2)
Re-telling the story of the 20th century -- truthfully
Must Read !!! |
55. Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan by Mire Koikari | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2009-12-28)
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56. Spies in the Sky: Surveillance Satellites in War and Peace (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration) by Pat Norris | |
Paperback: 222
Pages
(2007-10-04)
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Editorial Review Product Description In ‘Spies in the Sky' Patrick Norris responds to the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age – the launch of Sputnik 1 – with a review of the most important historical applications of space science for the benefit of the human race during that half century, focusing particularly on the prevention of nuclear war. The author addresses the oft quoted conclusion that the Moon landings and the ‘race to the Moon’ between the two superpowers were a side effect of the Cold War, by describing what he believes was the more important event – the use of satellites by military to prevent the Cold War becoming a ‘hot war’. In developing the story the author casts a spotlight on a little-known aspect of the Space Age, namely the military dimension. Today military satellites represent 25 percent of all satellites in orbit, and they are just as important now in preventing regional nuclear war as they were in preventing global Armageddon more than 30 years ago. Beginning with a discussion of Sputnik 1, and the impact of its launch, both on the Soviets and on the West, the book continues to show the social, economic and scientific benefits of satellites today in our daily lives some 50 years later. The author introduces the concept of the Cold War nuclear stand off and mutually assured destruction and shows how spy satellites developed, and the problems of using them to verify arms limitation treaties. He identifies the significance of the ABM Treaty and of SALT and demonstrates how satellites were used to underpin such agreements. He then discusses fringe nuclear powers, such as the UK, France and China and the concept of nuclear non-proliferation. He concludes by looking at the regional tensions of today, including Israel and Arabic nations, India and Pakistan and the threat posed by North Korea, and looks ahead to what the future holds. Customer Reviews (2)
Not as thorough as expected
Good review of topic |
57. A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (American Empire Project) by Alfred McCoy | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2006-12-26)
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too optimistic?
Makes me feel ill
Redefining Torture
Decent Book With Surprises
Why do we torture? |
58. America, Russia and the Cold War 1945-2006 by Walter LaFeber | |
Paperback: 496
Pages
(2006-11-20)
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Serious but readable long-term expert avoids fashions of the moment
Balanced and Insightful
A noisome interpretation of history
A decent survey book
Very bad survey of cold war |
59. Russia, America and the Cold War: 1949-1991 (Revised 2nd Edition) (2nd Edition) by Martin McCauley | |
Paperback: 248
Pages
(2008-08-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description Following on from McCauley's bestselling Origins of the Cold War, this book looks at the years from 1949 to 1991. This is a completely to date survey of the subject Includes chronology, list of treaties and summits between the superpowers and who's who. Customer Reviews (5)
terrible writing style, ok content
Generally a good overview
Student Review
Not bad
An excellent overview |
60. America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity by Campbell Craig, Fredrik Logevall | |
Hardcover: 448
Pages
(2009-10-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II. It ended in victory for the United States, yet it was a costly triumph, claiming trillions of dollars in defense spending and the lives of nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers. Apocalyptic anti-communism sharply limited the range of acceptable political debate, while American actions overseas led to the death of millions of innocent civilians and destabilized dozens of nations that posed no threat to the United States. In a brilliant new interpretation, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall reexamine the successes and failures of America’s Cold War. The United States dealt effectively with the threats of Soviet predominance in Europe and of nuclear war in the early years of the conflict. But in engineering this policy, American leaders successfully paved the way for domestic actors and institutions with a vested interest in the struggle’s continuation. Long after the USSR had been effectively contained, Washington continued to wage a virulent Cold War that entailed a massive arms buildup, wars in Korea and Vietnam, the support of repressive regimes and counterinsurgencies, and a pronounced militarization of American political culture. American foreign policy after 1945 was never simply a response to communist power or a crusade contrived solely by domestic interests. It was always an amalgamation of both. This provocative book lays bare the emergence of a political tradition in Washington that feeds on external dangers, real or imagined, a mindset that inflames U.S. foreign policy to this day. Customer Reviews (3)
ABOOKWORTHREADING
One step at a time, I guess
A BRILLIANTAND ORIGINAL ANALYSIS OF THE COLD WAR |
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