Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780544716247
Anonim
Cold War Hot
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Cold War Hot
Peter G. Tsouras
Author : Peter G. Tsouras
Publisher : Tantor eBooks
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781618030238
Cold War Hot by Peter G. Tsouras Pdf
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
Alfread A. Reisch
Author : Alfread A. Reisch
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155225239
Hot Books in the Cold War by Alfread A. Reisch Pdf
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.
Hot Skies of the Cold War
ALEXANDER. MLADENOV,Evgeni Andonov
Author : ALEXANDER. MLADENOV,Evgeni Andonov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912866919
Hot Skies of the Cold War by ALEXANDER. MLADENOV,Evgeni Andonov Pdf
After the end of the Second World War, Bulgaria fell in total dependency upon the Soviet Union as a direct result of the 1944 Yalta agreement on the 'spheres of influence' division of Europe. The Bulgarian Air Force was radically reformed in the Soviet style and rapidly re-equipped with huge numbers of front-line aircraft.The strengthening of the Bulgarian air arm became a high priority as the Cold War in the Balkans gathered speed, and small incidents near the southern and western borders of the country began to occur with increasing frequency. The extensive 'Sovietisation' of the Bulgarian air arm led to the eventual change of its official title in late 1949, becoming identical to its Soviet counterpart, the Voennovazdushni Sily (VVS), featuring a structure identical to that of a Soviet front-line air army.In April 1951, the Bulgarian Air Force entered the jet era with the delivery of the first batch of Yak-23 fighters, followed not after long by the MiG-15.The hot period of the Cold War in the early and mid-1950s saw frequent night overflights by US aircraft ferrying CIA teams to be delivered by parachute to Bulgarian territory, and often to Romania and the southern parts of the Soviet Union.This tense situation required a constant high alert state, but the Bulgarian jet fighters and anti-aircraft artillery proved largely unsuccessful in countering the night intrusions. They were more successful, however, in countering the flights of high-altitude balloons with photo reconnaissance equipment launched by the US intelligence in an effort to gather information on the countries behind the Iron Curtain.The only occasion of a foreign aircraft being shot down was El Al Flight 402, a Super Constellation on a regular passenger flight between London to Tel Aviv via Vienna and Istanbul. The ill-fated airliner, known as one of the greatest victims of the Cold War tensions, nervousness and distrust, was attacked by Bulgarian MiG-15 fighters on 27 June 1955 after it erroneously strayed off course into Bulgarian territory, killing all 58 people onboard.The formation of the Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact Treaty Organisation on May 14, 1956 heralded the beginning of a new era in the VVS' development. As one of the most enthusiastic Warsaw Pact members, Bulgaria was readily supplied with huge numbers of combat jets, anti-aircraft artillery, surface-to-air missile systems and early warning radars in an effort to boost up the pact's southern flank defence.
Hot War, Cold War
Colin McInnes
Author : Colin McInnes
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037450551
Hot War, Cold War by Colin McInnes Pdf
This is an examination of the way in which the British Army has fought its wars since 1945, and of the Army's place in defence policy. It covers a variety of conflicts in which the Army has been used from Korea and Kuwait to Northern Ireland.
Cold War Hot
Peter Tsouras
Author : Peter Tsouras
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 0739435590
Cold War Hot by Peter Tsouras Pdf
Cold War Gone Hot
Ambush Alley Ambush Alley Games
Author : Ambush Alley Ambush Alley Games
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849085373
Cold War Gone Hot by Ambush Alley Ambush Alley Games Pdf
"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.†? – Ronald Reagan, 1984. With these words, spoken as a sound check to a radio broadcast, President Reagan came dangerously close to igniting the long-simmering Cold War. Although Soviet forces were placed on alert following reports of this comment, the full-scale conflict between the West and the Soviet Bloc did not break out. Cold War Gone Hot, the latest companion volume for Force on Force, looks at the 44-year history of the Cold War and asks: "what if?†? With the orders of battle, vehicle stats and missions included in this volume, Force on Force players can simulate the advance of Soviet tanks across Western Europe, a thrust into Alaska, or any number of other plausible scenarios where history took a slightly different path.
From Hot War to Cold
Jeffrey G. Barlow
Author : Jeffrey G. Barlow
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804770965
From Hot War to Cold by Jeffrey G. Barlow Pdf
This book discusses the role of the U.S. Navy within the country's national security structure during the first decade of the Cold War from the perspective of the service's senior uniformed officer, the Chief of Naval Operations, and his staff. It examines a variety of important issues of the period, including the Army-Navy fight over unification that led to the creation of the National Security Act of 1947, the early postwar fighting in China between the Nationalists and the Communists, the formation of NATO, the outbreak of the Korean War, the decision of the Eisenhower Administration not to intervene in the Viet Minh troops' siege of the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu, and the initiation of the Eisenhower "New Look" defense policy. The author relies upon information obtained from a wide range of primary sources and personal interviews with important, senior Navy and Army officers. The result is a book that provides the reader with a new way of looking at these pivotal events.
Cold War Hot War
Gavan McCormack
Author : Gavan McCormack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:809735007
Cold War Hot War by Gavan McCormack Pdf
The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War
Peter Polack
Author : Peter Polack
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612001968
The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War by Peter Polack Pdf
A fascinating chronicle of the Cold War battle where US and Soviet weapons, as well as Cuban and South African troops, took part in the Angolan Civil War. In the late 1980s, as America prepared to claim its victory in the Cold War over the Soviet Union, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The socialist Angolan government, stocked with Soviet weapons, had only to wipe out the resistance group UNITA, secretly supplied by the United States, in order to claim sovereignty. But as Angolan forces gained the upper hand, apartheid-era South Africa stepped in to protect its own interests. The white army crossing the border prompted the Angolans to call on their own foreign reinforcements—the army of Communist Cuba. Thus began the epic Battle of Cuito Cuanavale: an odd match-up of South African Boers against Castro’s armed forces. While South Africa was subject to an arms boycott since 1977, the Cuban and Angolan troops had the latest Soviet weapons. But UNITA had its secret US supply line, and the South Africans knew how to fight. As a case study of ferocious fighting between East and West, The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War unveils a remarkable episode in the endgame of the Cold War—one that is largely unknown to the American public.
The Cold War: Hot wars of the Cold War
Lori Lyn Bogle
Author : Lori Lyn Bogle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cold War
ISBN : LCCN:2001031997
The Cold War: Hot wars of the Cold War by Lori Lyn Bogle Pdf
The Hot 'Cold War'
Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin
Author : Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131637253
The Hot 'Cold War' by Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin Pdf
Magisterial analysis of human history, from the first hominid to the Great Recession of 2008. Written from the perspective of ordinary men and women.
Hot Art, Cold War – Western and Northern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990
Claudia Hopkins,Iain Boyd Whyte
Author : Claudia Hopkins,Iain Boyd Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351187657
Hot Art, Cold War – Western and Northern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 by Claudia Hopkins,Iain Boyd Whyte Pdf
Hot Art, Cold War – Northern and Western European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of American art in Europe during the Cold War era through primary sources. With the exception of those originally published in English, the majority of these texts are translated into English for the first time from eight languages, and are introduced by scholarly essays. They offer a representative selection of the diverse responses to American art in Great Britain, Ireland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, West Germany (FRG), Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. There was no single European discourse, as attitudes to American art were determined by a wide range of ideological, political, social, cultural, and artistic positions that varied considerably across the European nations. This volume and its companion, Hot Art, Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, offer the reader a unique opportunity to compare how European art writers introduced and explained contemporary American art to their many and varied audiences. Whilst many are fluent in one or two foreign languages, few are able to read all twenty-five languages represented in the two volumes. These ground-breaking publications significantly enrich the fields of American art studies and European art criticism. This book, together with its companion volume Hot Art, Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990,, is a joint initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art and the editors of the journal Art in Translation at the University of Edinburgh. The journal, launched in 2009, publishes English-language translations of the most significant texts on art and visual cultures presently only available only in their source language. It is committed to widening the perspectives of art history, making it more pluralist in terms of its authors, viewpoints, and subject matter.
Fallout
Harry Turtledove
Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553390742
Fallout by Harry Turtledove Pdf
“Turtledove is the standard-bearer for alternate history.”—USA Today The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments: One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. In this astounding new series, the unthinkable has come to pass. The Cold War turns hot—and the United States and the Soviet Union unleash their nuclear arsenals upon each other. Millions die. Millions more are displaced. Germans battle side by side with Americans, Polish freedom fighters next to Russian fascists. The genie is out of the bottle. And there’s no telling what fresh hell will come next. At the heart of Fallout are Harry Truman and Josef Stalin. Even as Joe McCarthy rises in power, the U.S. president is focused elsewhere, planning to cut off the head of the Soviet threat by taking out Stalin. It’s a daring gambit, but the Soviets have one of their own. Meanwhile, Europe’s weak sisters, France and Italy, seem poised to choose the winning side, while China threatens to overrun Korea. With Great Britain ravaged and swaths of America in ruins, leaders are running out of options. When the United States drops another series of bombs to slow the Russian advance in Europe, Stalin strikes back—with horrifying results. These staggering events unfold through the eyes of a sprawling cast of characters: a Holocaust survivor in a displaced persons camp in Washington; the wife of a bomber pilot and her five-year-old daughter starting a new existence; a savage Soviet fighter waging war by his own rules; a British pub owner falling in love with an American pilot. In the masterly hands of Harry Turtledove, this epic chronicle of war becomes a story of human struggle. As the armies of the world implode, the next chapter will be written by the survivors—those willing to rise up for an uncertain future. Praise for Fallout “Turtledove proves, yet again, that he is the best when it comes to rewriting history!”—Suspense Magazine “Turtledove, the master of alternate history, has done well again.”—Shelf Awareness “No one writes alternate-history novels quite like Turtledove. . . . Expect epic political stakes as well as personal and heartfelt stories of war.”—BookTrib
The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Cold War Goes Hot
Jim Whiting
Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781545749333
The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Cold War Goes Hot by Jim Whiting Pdf
The United States and the Soviet Union were two of the nations that defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. Yet their systems of government were completely different. These differences soon developed into the Cold War. Both sides became bitter enemies. But there was no actual fighting. That situation nearly changed in 1961. The Soviets secretly installed missiles with nuclear warheads in Cuba. These missiles could reach many cities in the United States. When President John F. Kennedy learned about these weapons, he confronted Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. The world teetered on the brink of a nuclear war. This is the story of that chilling event.