2,086円 During the plunging temperature of the early Cold War years the RAF found itself increasingly in need of a truly all-weather high performance fighter. There were two leading designs available as prototypes in 1951; the DH110 from de Havilland and from Gloster, the GA5. These were to become respec...

2,674円 In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giant leap forward. A companion book to the l...

1,868円 ...a most disturbing portrait of the effects of nuclear weapons testing on the people of Micronesia...-Library Journal

1,205円 Il Novecento ci ha lasciato in eredità un nuovo modo di combattere le guerre. Non più tra due eserciti riconosciuti, ma tra un esercito e un insieme di formazioni irregolari non riconoscibili e identificabili. Inoltre l'uso della guerra preventiva ha di fatto scardinato l'uso dei conflitti, non p...

1,205円 In queste pagine Svetlana Aleksievič presenta in tre interventi la sua opera, che tratta «delle nuove paure che ci stanno davanti. Siamo in un mondo diverso da prima, la nostra anima deve affrontare molte prove e imparare di nuovo il coraggio di vivere». Dando voce alla sofferenza, ai testimoni, ...

2,259円 Finalmente la cronaca, giorno per giorno, del Secondo conflitto mondiale. Dall’attacco tedesco alla Polonia il 1° settembre 1939 al disarmo delle ultime unità giapponesi nell’autunno del 1945. Il libro passa in esame gli eventi significativi su ogni fronte, in ogni ambiente (terrestre, navale e a...

1,205円 La Breve Storia delle Relazioni tra gli Stati Uniti d’America e la Russia è una raccolta dei principali eventi storici che hanno segnato i rapporti tra le due potenze mondiali a partire dal 1809, anno in cui il futuro presidente americano John Quincy Adams diventa ambasciatore nella Russia Imperi...

20,326円 Every nuclear weapons program for decades has relied extensively on illicit imports of nuclear-related technologies. This book offers the most detailed public account of how states procure what they need to build nuclear weapons, what is currently being done to stop them, and how global efforts t...

2,628円 The history of Soviet strategic bombers after the Second World War is a fascinating one: from the reverse-engineering of interned American Boeing B-29 bombers into the first Soviet strategic bomber, the Tu-4; to the huge jet and turbo-prop powered aircraft of today's Russian Air Force. This compr...

9,616円 The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples.

1,793円 Now a New York Times Bestseller. The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at moments of societal collapse and other apocalyptic events from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future. Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the ...

7,025円 How nuclear weapons helped drive the United States into the missile age. The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), designed to quickly deliver thermonuclear weapons to distant targets, was the central weapons system of the Cold War. ICBMs also carried the first astronauts and cosmonauts into...