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  • The Fog of War

    Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

    by James G. Blight, janet M. Lang ...
    Robert S. McNamara is one of modern America's most controversial figures. His opinions, policies, and actions have led to a firestorm of debate, ignited most recently by Errol Morris's Academy Award-winning film, The Fog of War. In the companion book, editors James G. Blight and janet M. Lang use lessons from McNamara's life to examine issues of war and peace in the 20th century. McNamara's career ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Sad and Luminous Days

    Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis

    by James G. Blight, Philip Brenner ...
    In October 1962 school children huddled under their desks and diplomats feverishly negotiated as the world sat on the brink of nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous moment in modern history and resulted in a changed worldview for the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba.In tracing the developments of the missile crisis and beyond, Sad and Luminous Days presents and ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Becoming Enemies

    U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979–1988

    by James G. Blight, janet M. Lang, Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, John Tirman ...
    Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.S. and Iranian relations from the fall of the Shah in 1978 through the Iranian hostage crisis and the Iran-Iraq war. Scholars and former officials involved with U.S. and UN policy take a fresh look at U.S and Iranian relations ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis

    Edited by James G. Blight, David A. Welch ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This is the first study to examine throughly the role of US, Soviet and Cuban Intelligence in the nuclear crisis of 1962 - the closest the world has come to Armageddon. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Dark Beyond Darkness

    The Cuban Missile Crisis as History, Warning, and Catalyst

    by James G. Blight, janet M. Lang ...
    In Dark Beyond Darkness, James Blight and janet Lang, among the world’s foremost authorities on the Cuban missile crisis, synthesize the findings from their thirty-year project on the most dangerous moment in recorded history. Authoritative, accessible, and written with their usual flair and wit, DBD is the first book to take readers deeply inside the experience and calculations of Fidel Castro, ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Armageddon Letters

    Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by James G. Blight, janet M. Lang ...
    In October, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought human civilization to the brink of destruction. On the 50th anniversary of the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear era, two of the leading experts on the crisis recreate the drama of those tumultuous days as experienced by the leaders of the three countries directly involved: U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

    by Daniel Ellsberg ...
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    $12.99 USD

  • Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Robert F. Kennedy ...
    "A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history."—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy

    Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935–1961

    by Nicholas E. Reynolds ...
    **A New York Times–bestseller from an intelligence insider reveals the "fascinating new research" revealing Hemingway's hidden life in espionage ( New York Review of Books).A riveting epic, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy reveals for the first time Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures in espionage and intelligence.While he was the historian at the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, former American ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Minute to Midnight

    by Michael Dobbs ...
    In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In thishour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to Armageddon.Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Active Measures

    The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

    by Thomas Rid ...
    This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farmsWe live in the age of disinformation**—**of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Kennedy's Wars : Berlin Cuba Laos and Vietnam

    Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam

    by Lawrence Freedman ...
    In his thousand-day presidency John F. Kennedy led America through one of its most difficult and potentially explosive eras. With the Cold War at its height and the threat of communist advances in Europe and the Third World Kennedy had the unenviable task of maintaining U.S. solidarity without leading the western world into a nuclear catastrophe. In Kennedy's Wars noted historian Lawrence Freedman ... Read more

    $30.59 USD