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  • West German Ostpolitik, the Soviet Union, and East-West Détente in Europe

    Edited by Dr Michael Borchard, Stefan Karner, Peter Ruggenthaler, Prof. Hanns Jürgen Küsters ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    West German Ostpolitik, the Soviet Union, and East-West Détente in Europe explores how the détente policy changed the character of the Cold War.The Moscow files, now opened for the first time show 50 years later, reveal new insights and implications into the creation and implementation of the détente policy. This collection offers a detailed examination of European security from the mid-1960s to ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Red Army in Austria

    The Soviet Occupation, 1945–1955

    by Dieter Bacher, Aleksei Filitov, Harald Knoll, Mikhail Prozumenshchikov, Peter Ruggenthaler, Günter Bischof, Walter M. Iber ...
    Translated by Alex J. Kay ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    Based on a broad array of sources from Russian and Austrian archives, this collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the Soviet occupation of Austria from 1945 to 1955. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including the Soviet Secret Services, the military kommandaturas, Soviet occupation policies, the withdrawal of troops in 1955, everyday life, the image of “the Russians,” ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968

    Edited by Günter Bischof, Stefan Karner, Peter Ruggenthaler ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    On August 20, 1968, tens of thousands of Soviet and East European ground and air forces moved into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country in an attempt to end the "Prague Spring" reforms and restore an orthodox Communist regime. The leader of the Soviet Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, was initially reluctant to use military force and tried to pressure his counterpart in Czechoslovakia, ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in International History

    by Martin Kofler, Ol’ga Pavlenko, Georges-Henri Soutou, Ingrid Bauer, Timothy Naftali, Vladimir Pechatnov, Manfred Wilke, Viktor Sukhodrev, Michail Prozumenshchikov, Peter Ruggenthaler, Richard D. Williamson, Jennifer Lynn Walton, Sir Lawrence Freedman, Anne Deighton, David Reynolds, Ted Sorensen, Gerhard Wettig ...
    Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    At the beginning of June 1961, the tensions of the Cold War were supposed to abate as both sides sought a resolution. The two most important men in the world, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, met for a summit in Vienna. Yet the high hopes were disappointed. Within months the Cold War had become very hot: Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall and a year later he sent missiles to Cuba to threaten ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

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    Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice

    by Kathryn Bolkovac, Cari Lynn ...
    The Whistleblower presents the shocking story of the human rights abuses perpetrated by American mercenary soldiers abroad, as told by the woman who brought them down--now a major motion picture.When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and was hired. Good money, world ... Read more

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  • Prague in Black and Gold

    Scenes from the Life of a European City

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    Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In Prague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz strips away sentimentalities and distortions and shows how Czechs, Germans, Italians, and Jews have lived and worked together for over a thousand years. ... Read more

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  • Gorbachev

    On My Country and the World

    by Mikhail Gorbachev ...
    The last president of the Soviet Union discusses Communism, the Cold War, and bringing democracy to Russia in this sweeping political memoir.Drawing on his own experience and rich archival material, Mikhail Gorbachev shares his illuminating perspective on Russia's past, present, and future place in the world. Beginning with the October Revolution of 1917, he notes how much Vladimir Lenin and the ... Read more

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  • The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo

    by Paula Huntley ...
    A moving testimony to the power of literature to bring people together in even the most difficult of circumstances.In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians poured over Kosovo's borders, bringing with them stories of torture, rape, and massacre. One year later, Paula Huntley's husband signed on with the American Bar Association to help build a modern legal ... Read more

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  • Operation Barbarossa

    The German Invasion of Soviet Russia

    by Robert Kirchubel ...
    A detailed and comprehensive examination of the Barbarossa campaign of June to December 1941.When Hitler ordered the start of Operation Barbarossa, millions of German soldiers flooded into Russia, believing that their rapid blitzkrieg tactics would result in an easy victory similar to the ones enjoyed by the Wehrmacht over Poland and France.But the huge human resources at the disposal of the ... Read more

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  • St. Petersburg

    by Jonathan Miles ...
    Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter the Great, St. Petersburg's dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly cemented by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers. This city, in its successive incarnations—St. Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad and, once again, St. Petersburg—has always been a place of perpetual contradiction.It was a ... Read more

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  • Facing the Nazi Past

    United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich

    by Bill Niven ...
    Facing the Nazi Past examines how the communist East viewed the events of these years very differently from West Germany during the Cold War. Following the unification of Germany, these contrasting memories of the Third Reich have contributed to a new perspective on this period of German history.Facing the Nazi Past explores the developments and debates that were symptomatic of this shift towards ... Read more

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  • The A to Z of the Gypsies (Romanies)

    by Donald Kenrick ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    Originating in India, the Gypsies arrived in Europe around the 14th century, spreading not only across the entirety of the continent but also immigrating to the Americas. The first Gypsy migration included farmworkers, blacksmiths, and mercenary soldiers, as well as musicians, fortune-tellers, and entertainers. At first, they were generally welcome as an interesting diversion to the dull routine ... Read more

    $47.79 USD