Author: Peter G. Tsouras
Publisher: Tantor eBooks
ISBN: 161803023X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
It was in the Third World that the ambitions and fears of the two Cold War superpowers were played out v Korea, Vietnam, Egypt and Syria, Afghanistan. In their bizarre way, these were carefully controlled wars, carefully controlled in the sense that neither great power allowed itself to become directly engaged in a hot war with the other. Equally, neither allowed itself to go for broke in a grand sweep across the Third World in fear of provoking that final confrontation. But this fear of direct confrontation was never as rigidly controlled as one would think. Again and again events veered towards a clash between Eagle and Bear. The authors of this book make real such terrifying possibilities as Korea or the 67 War dragging in both superpowers; they predict the consequences of the United States or the Soviet Union attempting radical strategies in Vietnam or in a divided Germany, either to follow the British success in Malaya or to invade the North; they imagine the invasion of Cuba when the delicate signals failed to find a way out of the Missile Crisis and bring to life a scenario in which the Soviet Union knocks the Great Game off the board by using Afghanistan as base to bring down Pakistan and achieve its warm water port on the Indian Ocean. Cold War Hot vividly brings to life these and many other alternate scenarios, taking the reader behind the scenes at these momentous moments in history. In showing what could have happened, the authors show how precarious the Cold War peace actually was, and how little it would have taken to tip the balance into World War Three.
Hot Books in the Cold War
Author: Alfread A. Reisch
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155225230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
This study reveals the hidden story of the secret book distribution program to Eastern Europe financed by the CIA during the Cold War. At its height between 1957 and 1970, the book program was one of the least known but most effective methods of penetrating the Iron Curtain, reaching thousands of intellectuals and professionals in the Soviet Bloc. Reisch conducted thorough research on the key personalities involved in the book program, especially the two key figures: S. S. Walker, who initiated the idea of a ?mailing project,? and G. C. Minden, who developed it into one of the most effective political and psychological tools of the Cold War. The book includes excellent chapters on the vagaries of censorship and interception of books by communist authorities based on personal letters and accounts from recipients of Western material. It will stand as a testimony in honor of the handful of imaginative, determined, and hard-working individuals who helped to free half of Europe from mental bondage and planted many of the seeds that germinated when communism collapsed and the Soviet bloc disintegrated.
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155225230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
This study reveals the hidden story of the secret book distribution program to Eastern Europe financed by the CIA during the Cold War. At its height between 1957 and 1970, the book program was one of the least known but most effective methods of penetrating the Iron Curtain, reaching thousands of intellectuals and professionals in the Soviet Bloc. Reisch conducted thorough research on the key personalities involved in the book program, especially the two key figures: S. S. Walker, who initiated the idea of a ?mailing project,? and G. C. Minden, who developed it into one of the most effective political and psychological tools of the Cold War. The book includes excellent chapters on the vagaries of censorship and interception of books by communist authorities based on personal letters and accounts from recipients of Western material. It will stand as a testimony in honor of the handful of imaginative, determined, and hard-working individuals who helped to free half of Europe from mental bondage and planted many of the seeds that germinated when communism collapsed and the Soviet bloc disintegrated.
Cold War Hot
Author: Peter G. Tsouras
Publisher: Tantor eBooks
ISBN: 161803023X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
It was in the Third World that the ambitions and fears of the two Cold War superpowers were played out v Korea, Vietnam, Egypt and Syria, Afghanistan. In their bizarre way, these were carefully controlled wars, carefully controlled in the sense that neither great power allowed itself to become directly engaged in a hot war with the other. Equally, neither allowed itself to go for broke in a grand sweep across the Third World in fear of provoking that final confrontation. But this fear of direct confrontation was never as rigidly controlled as one would think. Again and again events veered towards a clash between Eagle and Bear. The authors of this book make real such terrifying possibilities as Korea or the 67 War dragging in both superpowers; they predict the consequences of the United States or the Soviet Union attempting radical strategies in Vietnam or in a divided Germany, either to follow the British success in Malaya or to invade the North; they imagine the invasion of Cuba when the delicate signals failed to find a way out of the Missile Crisis and bring to life a scenario in which the Soviet Union knocks the Great Game off the board by using Afghanistan as base to bring down Pakistan and achieve its warm water port on the Indian Ocean. Cold War Hot vividly brings to life these and many other alternate scenarios, taking the reader behind the scenes at these momentous moments in history. In showing what could have happened, the authors show how precarious the Cold War peace actually was, and how little it would have taken to tip the balance into World War Three.
Publisher: Tantor eBooks
ISBN: 161803023X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
It was in the Third World that the ambitions and fears of the two Cold War superpowers were played out v Korea, Vietnam, Egypt and Syria, Afghanistan. In their bizarre way, these were carefully controlled wars, carefully controlled in the sense that neither great power allowed itself to become directly engaged in a hot war with the other. Equally, neither allowed itself to go for broke in a grand sweep across the Third World in fear of provoking that final confrontation. But this fear of direct confrontation was never as rigidly controlled as one would think. Again and again events veered towards a clash between Eagle and Bear. The authors of this book make real such terrifying possibilities as Korea or the 67 War dragging in both superpowers; they predict the consequences of the United States or the Soviet Union attempting radical strategies in Vietnam or in a divided Germany, either to follow the British success in Malaya or to invade the North; they imagine the invasion of Cuba when the delicate signals failed to find a way out of the Missile Crisis and bring to life a scenario in which the Soviet Union knocks the Great Game off the board by using Afghanistan as base to bring down Pakistan and achieve its warm water port on the Indian Ocean. Cold War Hot vividly brings to life these and many other alternate scenarios, taking the reader behind the scenes at these momentous moments in history. In showing what could have happened, the authors show how precarious the Cold War peace actually was, and how little it would have taken to tip the balance into World War Three.
Disaster and Development
Author: Neil Middleton
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745312248
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A critical account of the politics of aid-giving.
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745312248
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A critical account of the politics of aid-giving.
Empires Apart
Author: Brian Landers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681770202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
A fresh, commanding, and thought-provoking narrative history of the competing Russian and American empires. The American road to empire started when the first English settlers landed in Virginia. Simultaneously, the first Russians crossed the Urals and the two empires that would dominate the twentieth century were born. Empires Apart covers the history of the Americans and Russians from the Vikings to the present day. It shows the two empires developed in parallel as they expanded to the Pacific and launched wars against the nations around them. They both developed an imperial 'ideology' that was central to the way they perceived themselves. Soon after, the ideology of the Russian Empire also changed with the advent of Communism. The key argument of this book is that these changes did not alter the core imperial values of either nation; both Russians and Americans continued to believe in their manifest destiny. Corporatist and Communist imperialism changed only the mechanics of empire. Both nations have shown that they are still willing to use military force and clandestine intrigue to enforce imperial control. Uniquely, Landers shows how the broad sweep of American history follows a consistent path from the first settlers to the present day and, by comparing this with Russia's imperial path, demonstrates the true nature of American global ambitions.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681770202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
A fresh, commanding, and thought-provoking narrative history of the competing Russian and American empires. The American road to empire started when the first English settlers landed in Virginia. Simultaneously, the first Russians crossed the Urals and the two empires that would dominate the twentieth century were born. Empires Apart covers the history of the Americans and Russians from the Vikings to the present day. It shows the two empires developed in parallel as they expanded to the Pacific and launched wars against the nations around them. They both developed an imperial 'ideology' that was central to the way they perceived themselves. Soon after, the ideology of the Russian Empire also changed with the advent of Communism. The key argument of this book is that these changes did not alter the core imperial values of either nation; both Russians and Americans continued to believe in their manifest destiny. Corporatist and Communist imperialism changed only the mechanics of empire. Both nations have shown that they are still willing to use military force and clandestine intrigue to enforce imperial control. Uniquely, Landers shows how the broad sweep of American history follows a consistent path from the first settlers to the present day and, by comparing this with Russia's imperial path, demonstrates the true nature of American global ambitions.
Macrodynamic Economics
Author: Howard J. Sherman
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Business cycles
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Business cycles
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
2084
Author: W. Milton Timmons
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438908830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Who murdered the chief engineer of the RUR robotics company of Portland, Oregon, and stole his prototype computer chip? By 2084 atmospheric temperature is up by eight degrees and ocean levels are up by eighteen feet. Both federal and state governments have collapsed, replaced instead by a system of city-states. Carlton Smith, sales manager of RUR, is tasked with finding out who-done-it and saving the company from bankruptcy. Carlton is a widower with an eighteen year old daughter named Tori. The company provides Carlton with several high tech bugging devices, as well as a custom built vehicle modeled after the old army Humvee. The investigation would lead Carlton and Tori on a dangerous trip through the Wild West back to the ruins of Chicago, which is a Christian Fundamentalist city-state at war with the Black Muslim city-state of Detroit. In Chicago Carlton is kidnapped by Yakuza gangsters and taken to the Roman Catholic city-state of San Antonio, where Tori rescues her father in spectacular fashion. Carlton and Tori travel across the desert toward Los Angeles. But near the ruins of Las Vegas, Tori is kidnapped from the ladies' room of a restaurant. There are no police between Albuquerque and Los Angeles so Carlton continues his trip and reports the crime. He drops into a bar, where he is picked up by a beautiful hostess named Julia O'Brian. Julia works for a politically powerful New Age preacher named the Prophet, whose church is in a political tug-of-war with the American Catholic Church over control of the city. The key to the Prophet's popularity is the fact that he seems to be eternally youthful. How does he do it? What happened to Tori? Will Carlton save the company? Will civilization survive? Read the book to find out!
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438908830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Who murdered the chief engineer of the RUR robotics company of Portland, Oregon, and stole his prototype computer chip? By 2084 atmospheric temperature is up by eight degrees and ocean levels are up by eighteen feet. Both federal and state governments have collapsed, replaced instead by a system of city-states. Carlton Smith, sales manager of RUR, is tasked with finding out who-done-it and saving the company from bankruptcy. Carlton is a widower with an eighteen year old daughter named Tori. The company provides Carlton with several high tech bugging devices, as well as a custom built vehicle modeled after the old army Humvee. The investigation would lead Carlton and Tori on a dangerous trip through the Wild West back to the ruins of Chicago, which is a Christian Fundamentalist city-state at war with the Black Muslim city-state of Detroit. In Chicago Carlton is kidnapped by Yakuza gangsters and taken to the Roman Catholic city-state of San Antonio, where Tori rescues her father in spectacular fashion. Carlton and Tori travel across the desert toward Los Angeles. But near the ruins of Las Vegas, Tori is kidnapped from the ladies' room of a restaurant. There are no police between Albuquerque and Los Angeles so Carlton continues his trip and reports the crime. He drops into a bar, where he is picked up by a beautiful hostess named Julia O'Brian. Julia works for a politically powerful New Age preacher named the Prophet, whose church is in a political tug-of-war with the American Catholic Church over control of the city. The key to the Prophet's popularity is the fact that he seems to be eternally youthful. How does he do it? What happened to Tori? Will Carlton save the company? Will civilization survive? Read the book to find out!
Military Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2572
Book Description
Rural Family Living
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2874
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2874
Book Description