Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Chasing spies	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…	OL16028951W
Fortune favours the brave-the Battle of the Hook Korea, 1953	A. J. Barker	Details two costly battles fought along a Korean ridge known as "the Hook" in 1952 and 1953. Both involved British infantry battalions of 29 Commonwealth Brigade, the Black Watch Regiment and the Duk…	OL2022716W
Ray Bradbury and the Cold War	Joseph Kampff	Discusses the influences of the Cold War on the writings of Ray Bradbury.	OL21314659W
Red scared!	Michael Barson	"Red Scared! reproduces the books, films, magazines, posters, games, and other media that trumpeted the Commie threat. Vivid renditions in pulp novels and films of menacing Commie commissars and evil…	OL2641455W
Churchill's Cold War	Philip White	This text provides the history of Winston Churchill's 1946 trip to Fulton, Missouri, where he delivered his Iron Curtain speech (Sinews of peace address), which served to fundamentally define the dan…	OL28949730W
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order	Samuel P. Huntington	From the Preface... In the summer of 1993 the journal Foreign Affairs published an article of mine titled "The Clash of Civilizations?". That article, according to the Foreign Affairs editors, sti…	OL3289930W
Britain, détente, and changing East-West relations	White, Brian	There is little systematic analysis available of Britain's contribution to East-West relations since 1945, and in particular of Britain's contribution to East-West detente. In general, British attemp…	OL4122608W
From the Danube to the Yalu	Clark, Mark W.	A sequel to Calculated Risk -- and of more immediate interest and news value in that this is primarily the story of General Clark's year of duty in Korea, a year that saw the cease fire -- and the en…	OL4634652W
World orders, old and new	Noam Chomsky	World Orders Old and New is a book by Noam Chomsky, first published in 1994 and updated in 1996 by Columbia University Press. In the book, Chomsky writes about the international scene since 1945,…	OL71722W
Enemies within	Jacqueline Foertsch	"Enemies Within presents the literature and film of the cold war and AIDS eras as evidence, manifestation, and symptom of the recurring ills of our postnuclear time: global threat, buried fears, and …	OL7795646W
The dead hand	David E. Hoffman	This riveting narrative history of the end of the arms race sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of the Cold War and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remai…	OL8961404W