ISBN: 9780375509100 - the cold war: a military history (23 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States and the Soviet Union, two national ideological entities, waged proxy wars to determine spheres of influence-and millions of others perished in places like Korea, Vietnam, and Angola, where this cold war flared hot.Such a consideration of the Cold War-as a military event with sociopolitical and economic overtones-is the crux of this stellar collection of twenty-six essays compiled and edited by Robert Cowley, the longtime editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. Befitting such a complex and far-ranging period, the volume's contributing writers cover myriad angles. John Prados, in The War Scare of 1983, shows just how close we were to escalating a war of words into a nuclear holocaust. Victor Davis Hanson offers The Right Man, his pungent reassessment of the bellicose air-power zealot Curtis LeMay as a man whose words were judged more critically than his actions.The secret war also gets its due in George Feiffer's The Berlin Tunnel, which details the charismatic C.I.A. operative Big Bill Harvey's effort to tunnel under East Berlin and tap Soviet phone lines-and the Soviets' equally audacious reaction to the plan; while The Truth About Overflights, by R. Cargill Hall, sheds light on some of the Cold War's best-kept secrets.The often overlooked human cost of fighting the Cold War finds a clear voice in MIA by Marilyn Elkins, the widow of a Navy airman, who details the struggle to learn the truth about her husband, Lt. Frank C. Elkins, whose A-4 Skyhawk disappeared over Vietnam in 1966. In addition there are profiles of the war's front lines-Dien Bien Phu, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs-as well as of prominent military and civil leaders from both sides, including Harry S. Truman, Nikita Khrushchev, Dean Acheson, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Richard M. Nixon, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, and others.Encompassing so many perspectives and events, The Cold War succeeds at an impossible task: illuminating and explaining the history of an undeclared shadow war that threatened the very existence of humankind.…

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States and the Soviet Union, two national ideological entities, waged proxy wars to determine spheres of influence-and millions of others perished in places like Korea, Vietnam, and Angola, where this cold war flared hot.Such a consideration of the Cold War-as a military event with sociopolitical and economic overtones-is the crux of this stellar collection of twenty-six essays compiled and edited by Robert Cowley, the longtime editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. Befitting such a complex and far-ranging period, the volume's contributing writers cover myriad angles. John Prados, in The War Scare of 1983, shows just how close we were to escalating a war of words into a nuclear holocaust. Victor Davis Hanson offers The Right Man, his pungent reassessment of the bellicose air-power zealot Curtis LeMay as a man whose words were judged more critically than his actions.The secret war also gets its due in George Feiffer's The Berlin Tunnel, which details the charismatic C.I.A. operative Big Bill Harvey's effort to tunnel under East Berlin and tap Soviet phone lines-and the Soviets' equally audacious reaction to the plan; while The Truth About Overflights, by R. Cargill Hall, sheds light on some of the Cold War's best-kept secrets.The often overlooked human cost of fighting the Cold War finds a clear voice in MIA by Marilyn Elkins, the widow of a Navy airman, who details the struggle to learn the truth about her husband, Lt. Frank C. Elkins, whose A-4 Skyhawk disappeared over Vietnam in 1966. In addition there are profiles of the war's front lines-Dien Bien Phu, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs-as well as of prominent military and civil leaders from both sides, including Harry S. Truman, Nikita Khrushchev, Dean Acheson, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Richard M. Nixon, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, and others.Encompassing so many perspectives and events, The Cold War succeeds at an impossible task: illuminating and explaining the history of an undeclared shadow war that threatened the very existence of humankind.…

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Condizione: Very Good. 1 Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Condizione: Good. 1 Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States and the Soviet Union, two national ideological entities, waged proxy wars to determine spheres of influence-and millions of others perished in places like Korea, Vietnam, and Angola, where this cold war flared hot.Such a consideration of the Cold War-as a military event with sociopolitical and economic overtones-is the crux of this stellar collection of twenty-six essays compiled and edited by Robert Cowley, the longtime editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. Befitting such a complex and far-ranging period, the volume's contributing writers cover myriad angles. John Prados, in The War Scare of 1983, shows just how close we were to escalating a war of words into a nuclear holocaust. Victor Davis Hanson offers The Right Man, his pungent reassessment of the bellicose air-power zealot Curtis LeMay as a man whose words were judged more critically than his actions.The secret war also gets its due in George Feiffer's The Berlin Tunnel, which details the charismatic C.I.A. operative Big Bill Harvey's effort to tunnel under East Berlin and tap Soviet phone lines-and the Soviets' equally audacious reaction to the plan; while The Truth About Overflights, by R. Cargill Hall, sheds light on some of the Cold War's best-kept secrets.The often overlooked human cost of fighting the Cold War finds a clear voice in MIA by Marilyn Elkins, the widow of a Navy airman, who details the struggle to learn the truth about her husband, Lt. Frank C. Elkins, whose A-4 Skyhawk disappeared over Vietnam in 1966. In addition there are profiles of the war's front lines-Dien Bien Phu, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs-as well as of prominent military and civil leaders from both sides, including Harry S. Truman, Nikita Khrushchev, Dean Acheson, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Richard M. Nixon, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, and others.Encompassing so many perspectives and events, The Cold War succeeds at an impossible task: illuminating and explaining the history of an undeclared shadow war that threatened the very existence of humankind.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States and the Soviet Union, two national ideological entities, waged proxy wars to determine spheres of influence-and millions of others perished in places like Korea, Vietnam, and Angola, where this cold war flared hot.Such a consideration of the Cold War-as a military event with sociopolitical and economic overtones-is the crux of this stellar collection of twenty-six essays compiled and edited by Robert Cowley, the longtime editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. Befitting such a complex and far-ranging period, the volume's contributing writers cover myriad angles. John Prados, in The War Scare of 1983, shows just how close we were to escalating a war of words into a nuclear holocaust. Victor Davis Hanson offers The Right Man, his pungent reassessment of the bellicose air-power zealot Curtis LeMay as a man whose words were judged more critically than his actions.The secret war also gets its due in George Feiffer's The Berlin Tunnel, which details the charismatic C.I.A. operative Big Bill Harvey's effort to tunnel under East Berlin and tap Soviet phone lines-and the Soviets' equally audacious reaction to the plan; while The Truth About Overflights, by R. Cargill Hall, sheds light on some of the Cold War's best-kept secrets.The often overlooked human cost of fighting the Cold War finds a clear voice in MIA by Marilyn Elkins, the widow of a Navy airman, who details the struggle to learn the truth about her husband, Lt. Frank C. Elkins, whose A-4 Skyhawk disappeared over Vietnam in 1966. In addition there are profiles of the war's front lines-Dien Bien Phu, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs-as well as of prominent military and civil leaders from both sides, including Harry S. Truman, Nikita Khrushchev, Dean Acheson, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Richard M. Nixon, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, and others.Encompassing so many perspectives and events, The Cold War succeeds at an impossible task: illuminating and explaining the history of an undeclared shadow war that threatened the very existence of humankind.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good/Very Good Condition. No marks on the text block. No marks of previous ownership or inscription. First edition, first printing.; Height: 9.48 Inches, Length: 6.49 Inches, Weight: 1.75 Pounds, Width: 1.53; 496 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Minimally Chipped Dj. First Edition. 478pp, First Edition. Former owner's name on inside front cover. No other marks. A collection of articles by various authors on the Cold War. Size: 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New Hardcover 1st edition - 1st printing and Like New DJ * Cover is in excellent condition has no flaws. * DJ in very good condition has minor shelf wear - slightly frayed on top - but no tears. * Text block: Clean and new looking Pages are clean and new looking. * Spine is straight & in excellent condition. * Ships NEXT DAY (M-F), We give you an honest competitive prices, ship next day, provide tracking, guarantee & exceptional customer service. If there is ever an issue we will resolve it for you so relax and smile. Be Wize. Make us your go-to bookseller.…