Seeking the Bomb
4,511円 The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weapons Much of the work on nuclear proliferation has focused on why states pursue nuclear weapons. The question of how states pursue nuclear weapons has received little attention. Seeking the Bom...
The Rose Garden
1,100円 The Path to Lidice is a series of ebooks that look into the relationships between Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, and the USA from the mid-1930s to the late 1960s. Roughly, this equates to the accession to supreme power in Germany of Adolf Hitler and ends with the fall of Alexander Dubček, the lib...
Appendices & References
1,100円 2022 is the 80th Anniversary of the Lidice Shall Live campaign and Lidice Lives, and we thought we would lay things out for you. In addition to a full bibliography and sources section, the Appendices and References volume of this series contains a wider selection of additional material the reader...
Brazil in the Global Nuclear Order, 1945–...
7,688円 The first comprehensive and definitive history of Brazil's decision to give up the nuclear weapon option. Why do countries capable of "going nuclear" choose not to? Brazil, which gained notoriety for developing a nuclear program and then backtracking into adherence to the nonproliferation regime,...
The Accidental President
2,490円 A hypnotically fast-paced, masterful reporting of Harry Truman’s first 120 days as president, when he took on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and a secret weapon of unimaginable powerーmarking the most dramatic rise to greatness in US presidential history. Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for h...
Confessions of a Phantom Pilot
1,555円 ‘The Confessions of a Phantom Pilot’ is the true story of a young RAF pilot who gets his dream to fly the old dirty workhorse fighter of the Cold War. From the first flight where he thought the jet was trying to kill him, through to his final trip of leading eight aeroplanes on a front line fight...
The Abyss
2,490円 Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern historyーthe Cuban Missile Crisisーproviding a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified world...
A Cold War Fighter Pilot in Peacetime and...
1,460円 Historically rich in detail with previously unpublished photographs A must-have for military enthusiasts, historians, modellers and those interested in the complexities of aircraft design and manoeuvres during the Cold War A fascinating and eye-opening memoir that will appeal to fliers and non-f...
From Berkeley to Berlin
5,300円 In November 1960, bolstered by anti-Communist ideologies, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States. Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev brandished nuclear diplomacy to force the United States to abandon Berlin, setting the stage for a major nuclear confrontation over the fate of We...
The Bomber In British Strategy
8,290円 Between 1945 and 1960, Great Britain constructed a substantial nuclear-armed bomber force. The creation of this force had ramifications that extended well beyond the confines of military policy. The process played a large part in defining relations with the United States, and the belief that thes...
Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb
297円 This story began before I was born, when my father, Ellis P. Steinberg, and uncle Bernard Abraham worked on the secret undertaking that developed the first atomic bombs. These later were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was not only my extended nuclear family that experienced and was affec...
Britain on the Brink
880円 This Cold War history examines the Cuban Missile Crisis from a British perspective, following events as they developed in London, Washington, and Moscow. During the Cold War, the possibility of nuclear destruction was never too far away. But for several days in October of 1962, that possibility c...
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