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Book cover for Nigel Ashton: Kennedy, MacMillan and the Cold War

Kennedy, MacMillan and the Cold War : The Irony of Interdependence

Nigel Ashton
Hardcover - $264.95

Nigel J. Ashton analyzes Anglo-American relations during a crucial phase of the Cold War. He argues that although policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic used the term "interdependence" to describe their relationship this concept had different me ...

Book cover for Carole Bryan Jones: Teach Yourself the Cold War

Teach Yourself the Cold War

Carole Bryan Jones
Paperback - $22.95

"Teach Yourself the Cold War "covers all the basics, from the conflict's post-WWII origins, to the culture it created, to how the balance between the major powers was eventually tipped in the West's favor. This engaging title also describes contro ...

Book cover for Joseph Cirincione: Bomb Scare

Bomb Scare : The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons

Joseph Cirincione
Hardcover - $44.95

Since their inception, nuclear weapons have multiplied at an alarming rate, leaving everyone from policymakers to concerned citizens wondering what it will take to slow, stop, or even reverse their spread. With clarity and expertise, Joseph Cirincion ...

Book cover for Joseph Cirincione: Bomb Scare

Bomb Scare : The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons

Joseph Cirincione
Paperback - $30.95



Book cover for Campbell Craig: Glimmer of a New Leviathan

Glimmer of a New Leviathan : Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz

Campbell Craig
Hardcover - $165.95

The Second World War put an end to America's historical isolationism. Three American thinkers -- Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Morgenthau, and Kenneth Waltz -- developed a modern strategic framework that sought to introduce Americans to the harsher realitie ...

Book cover for Dalsj Robert: Life-Line Lost

Life-Line Lost : The Rise and Fall of 'Neutral' Sweden's Secret Reserve Option of Wartime Help from the West

Dalsj Robert
Paperback - $81.95



Book cover for Gerard J. De Groot: The Bomb

The Bomb : A Life

Gerard J. De Groot
Hardcover - $44.95

Bombs are as old as hatred itself. But it was the 20th century that brought forth humanity's most powerful and destructive invention. DeGroot tells the story of this once unimaginable weapon that has haunted people's dreams and threatened their exist ...

Book cover for Gerard J. deGroot: The Bomb

The Bomb : A Life

Gerard J. deGroot
Paperback - $32.95

Bombs are as old as hatred itself. But it was the twentieth century--one hundred years of incredible scientific progress and terrible war--that brought forth the Big One, the Bomb, humanity's most powerful and destructive invention. In "The Bomb: A L ...

Book cover for Saki Dockrill: Palgrave Advances in Cold War History

Palgrave Advances in Cold War History :

Saki Dockrill
Hardcover - $191.95

This book deals with the ideational, cultural, political and strategic aspects of the multifaceted Cold War. Drawing on the work of numerous established scholars and experts, this volume of collected essays combines knowledge of the subject with key ...

Book cover for Saki R. Dockrill: Palgrave Advances in Cold War History

Palgrave Advances in Cold War History

Saki R. Dockrill
Paperback - $75.95

This is a multidisciplinary account of the subject. The book examines familiar concepts such as ideology, culture, and strategy that shaped the texture of the Cold War, updating our understanding of the recent past and providing a valuable source for ...

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