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Religion and American foreign policy, 1945-1960
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William Inboden |
"The Cold War was in many ways a religious war. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and other American leaders believed that human rights and freedoms were endowed by God, that God had called the United… |
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War within a war
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Corona, Laurel |
Explores both the Vietnam War and the Cold War and their effect on the world. |
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Chasing shadows
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Fred Burton |
"There's nothing like opening a cold terrorism case and finally finding the truth, one that will open the door to what we're up against today. Burton's done it with gripping narrative, and a straight… |
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Memorialization in Germany since 1945
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Bill Niven |
"Memorialization in Germany since 1945 provides a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Germany's rich memorial landscape. It discusses the many memorials to German losses during the Second World W… |
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God-fearing and free
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Jason W. Stevens |
Religion has been on the rise in America for decades -- which strikes many as a shocking new development. To the contrary, Jason Stevens asserts, the rumors of the death of God were premature. Americ… |
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Frozen in time
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Ali Sparkes |
In present-day England, thirteen-year-old Ben and his twelve-year-old sister Rachel find two children who have been cryogenically frozen in a bomb shelter since 1956, and must prevent them from being… |
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Russia's Cold War
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Jonathan Haslam |
The phrase "Cold War" was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: “We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stab… |
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The end of the Cold War and the Third World
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Artemy M. Kalinovsky |
"This book brings together recent research on the end of the Cold War in the Third World and engages with ongoing debates about regional conflicts, the role of great powers in the developing world, a… |
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Chasing spies
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Athan G. Theoharis |
Publisher's description: The long history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover is studded with serious questions about the Bureau's professionalism and accountability. Revelat… |
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Rome 1960
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David Maraniss |
Author Maraniss weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Olympics. Along with the unforgettable characters and dramatic contests, there was a deeper meaning to those d… |
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Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War
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Farley, John |
"This is the story of a man and an institution. Brock Chisholm was one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century. A world-renowned psychiatrist, he was the first director-general of … |
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Victor units of the Cold War
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Andrew J. Brookes |
"One of three jet bombers that formed the RAF's V-Force in the early years of the Cold War, the Victor was perhaps the most technologically advanced of the trio. Designed as the HP 80, the aircraft f… |
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Globetrotting
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Damion L. Thomas |
x, 209 pages ; 23 cm |
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A Very Principled Boy
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Bradley, Mark A. |
Duncan Chaplin Lee was a Rhodes Scholar, patriot, and descendent of one of America's most distinguished families—and possibly the best-placed mole ever to infiltrate U.S. intelligence operations. In … |
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Religion and the Cold War
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Dianne Kirby |
"This collection provides the first systematic examination of the role of religion in the Cold War. As the 'War on Terror', with its profound religious implications, is increasingly perceived as the … |
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A failed empire
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V. M. Zubok |
Using recently declassified Politburo records, ciphered telegrams, diaries & taped conversations, Zubok explores the origins of the superpowers' confrontation under Stalin, Khrushchev's contradictory… |
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Red moon rising
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Matthew Brzezinski |
The behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space. Khrushchev was frustrated at America's U-2 spy plane, which flew too high to be shot down. But Rus… |
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The Doomsday Machine
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Daniel Ellsberg |
From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day.
Here, … |
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Iron curtain
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Patrick Wright |
Launched as an evocative metaphor, the 'Iron Curtain' quickly became a brutal reality in the Cold War between Capitalist West and Communist East. Not surprisingly, for many years, people on both side… |
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Why did the Cold War happen?
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Harrison, Paul |
Includes firsthand speeches, letters, diary entries, and other primary source materials that give the reasons these unforgettable events unfolded as they did, this book describes what caused the Cold… |
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