In this book Maochun Yu tells the story of the intelligence activities of the Office of Strategic services (OSS) in China during World War II. Yu draws on recently released classified materials from the US National Archives and on ...
Birch instructed his deputy, Lieutenant Dong Qinsheng (Tung Chin-Sheng), to approach the Communist commander and ask for a pass. The Communist commander responded with a hostile order to surround and disarm the Birch party.
In this volume, Alan Levine traces the development of the Soviet Union and the Communist movement from 1917 to the Nazi invasion of the USSR in June 1941. Arguing that...
This text studies the Czechoslovak-German crisis and its impact from previously neglected perspectives and celebrates the post-Cold War openness by bringing in new evidence from hitherto inaccessible archives.
Often portrayed as an inept and stubborn tyrant, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem has long been the subject of much derision but little understanding. Philip Catton's penetrating study provides...
John Plowright presents the war as two distinct but overlapping conflicts (one European, the other Far Eastern), considering neither as merely a prelude to the Cold War, but critically examining their general impact and their relationship ...
This book is the only full-scale account of the strategic air offensive against Germany published in the last 20 years, and is also the only one that treats the British and the Americans with parity.
Earl Browder , the head of the CP - USA / CP marked the occasion by addressing the delegates in a speech as “ Ladies and Gentlemen , " rather than as " Comrades . " In July 1945 , it was reformed as the CP - USA , and Browder was ...
A new cold war between America and Russia "in our future" would merely be a short prelude to the threat of a civilization-ending nuclear exchange that no one saw coming. With open eyes we "walk into these great catastrophes," so they say.
M. Hopkins, M. Kandiah, G. Staerck. Part I Prelude to the Cold War 1 Britain and the Origins of the Cold War Erik Part I Prelude to the Cold War.