The Cold War examines the complex arguments which divided East and West following the end of the Second World War, and analyses its eight major phases...
In 'The Cold War', John Lewis Gaddis makes a major contribution to our understanding of this epichal story. Beginning with the Second World War and ending...
In 'The Cold War', John Lewis Gaddis makes a major contribution to our understanding of this epical story. Beginning with the Second World War and ending...
Post-war 1950s Boston is down on its luck. The dazzle and glitz has gone and infamous Scollay Square is being prepared for the wrecking ball. It's the...
PublishedNew York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006
Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era - the decade...
The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the spread of Perestroika throughout the former Soviet bloc was a sea change in world history and two years...
February 21, 1989. A self-made software magnate with a street hustler's flair, the privileged son of a hard-charging media mogul and a globe-trotting...
PublishedNew Haven, [Conn.]; London: Yale University Press, 2008
Reconstructing Stalin's leadership from the outbreak of WWII in 1939 to his death in 1953, this book challenges a long list of standard perceptions of...
Michael Dobbs tells the story of the last 6 months of World War II, when the Allies went from the hopes of Yalta to the open conflict that would lead...
Following on from the enormous success of his bestseller, 'The Secret Life of Bletchley Park', Sinclair McKay now uncovers the story of what happened...