Cold War Behind the Iron Curtain
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Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe (Bren Paulina)Communism Unwrapped reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank, smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed and exchanged goods. These everyday experiences, the editors and contributors argue, were central to the way that communism was l... |
66,32 € |
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Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the Us Armys Elite, 1956-1990 (Stejskal James)It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets. The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies... |
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An Analysis of John Lewis Gaddiss We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (Gilfillan Scott)John Lewis Gaddis had written four previous books on the Cold War by the time he published We Now Know - so the main thrust of his new work was not so much to present new arguments as to re-examine old ones in the light of new evidence that began emerging from behind the Iron Curtain after 1990. In ... |
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Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron CurtainA history of the United States' conflicts with the Soviet Union in the period known as the "Cold War." |
16,05 € |
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An Analysis of John Lewis Gaddiss We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (Gilfillan Scott)John Lewis Gaddis had written four previous books on the Cold War by the time he published We Now Know - so the main thrust of his new work was not so much to present new arguments as to re-examine old ones in the light of new evidence that began emerging from behind the Iron Curtain after 1990. In ... |
24,92 € |
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Jan Kodeš - A Journey to Glory from behind the Iron CurtainDocumenting the successful journey from political turmoil to international tennis fame, this compelling memoir chronicles the highs and lows in the life of Wimbledon champion Jan Kodes. Detailing the early days of darkness and family persecution in cold war Czechoslovakia, the complexities of becomi... |
49,44 € |
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Arthur Grace: Communism(s): A Cold War Album (Grace Arthur)An unusually intimate, close-quarters account of daily life in postwar communist countries For most people in the West, the realities of life behind the Iron Curtain have faded into caricatures of police state repression and bread lines. With the world seemingly again divided between democracies an... |
48,88 € |
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In the Belly of the Bear: An FBI Journey Behind the New Iron Curtain (Iverson Jeffrey)The collapse of the Soviet Union was a historic turning point when many, especially those who grew up during the Cold War, began to let go of their long-held fears and embrace feelings of hope for the future. That included agents of the FBI, who were, by necessity, busy building bridges with their f... |
38,28 € |
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Archaeology of the Teufelsberg: Exploring Western Electronic Intelligence Gathering in Cold War Berlin (Cocroft Wayne D.)For over 50 years, the white radomes of the Teufelsberg have been one of Berlins most prominent landmarks. For half of this time the city lay over 100 miles behind an Iron Curtain that divided East from West, and was surrounded by communist East Germany and the densest concentration of Warsaw Pact m... |
27,32 € |
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The Čz Models 50 and 70: Czech Cold War Police Pistols (Brown James D.)The ČZ handgun models 50 and 70 are available to Western collectors today but were both developed and produced behind the Iron Curtain. These pistols were seldom seen and little understood for decades. Now they are widely available for purchase, and this book fills the information gap. In the yea... |
46,04 € |
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Arthur Grace: Communism(s): A Cold War Album - Richard HornikFor most people in the West, the realities of life behind the Iron Curtain have faded into caricatures of police state repression and bread lines. With the world seemingly again divided between democracies and authoritarian regimes, it is essential that we understand the reality of life in the Sovie... |
48,80 € |
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Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain (Petrov Victor) |
65,56 € |
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Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron CurtainA history of the United States' conflicts with the Soviet Union in the period known as the "Cold War." |
16,05 € |
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The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Yelchin Eugene)With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russia. Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents dream that he become a national hero when he doesnt even h... |
14,96 € |
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Zookeepers' War - J.W. Mohnhaupt,The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. “The liveliness of Mohnhaupt’s storytelling and the wonderful eccentricity of his subject matter make this book well worth a read.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Living in We... |
11,50 € |
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Mikhail Gorbachev: MemoirsMikhail Gorbachev is the man who changed everything. It was Gorbachev's initiative that raised the Iron Curtain; his actions that resulted in one of the era's most symbolic events, the demolition on the Berlin Wall; his reforms that set in train events leading to the fall of Communism. Twelve years ... |
19,28 € |
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Flight for Freedom: The Wetzel Familys Daring Escape from East Germany (Berlin Wall History for Kids Book; Nonfiction Picture Books) (Fulton Kristen)An Inspiring True Story about One Familys Escape from Behind the Berlin Wall Peter was born on the east side of Germany, the side that wasnt free. He watches news programs rather than cartoons, and wears scratchy uniforms instead of blue jeans. His family endures long lines and early curfews. But P... |
13,12 € |
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Prague SpringIt's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to v... |
21,94 € |
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Lines of Deception (Anderson Steve)A West German nightclub owner goes behind the Iron Curtain on a desperate mission to save his brother, in this Cold War thriller by the author of Lost Kin. West Germany, 1949. Former actor Max Kaspar suffered greatly in the Second World War. Now he owns a nightclub in Munich--and occasionally lends... |
27,56 € |
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Prague SpringIt's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to v... |
9,38 € |
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