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Vintage Soviet Union Military Propaganda Red Army World War 2 Poster 20x30 - GO Ahead Victory is Near! -Home Decor Print

This poster is a wall decor paper print. Its semi-gloss media material is recyclable. Please place the poster away from UV light exposure as it is intended and recommended for interior use only. It is perfect for home or office room decoration. It... more

Matrix Games Combat Mission - Cold War New

Combat Mission Cold War is set in the tipping-point years of a conflict that gripped the world for 45 years. Between 1979-1982 both the NATO and Soviet Warsaw Pact militaries began the shift away from industrialized warfare of the early 20th century... more

Pre-Owned The United States and the Origins of the Cold War 1941-1947 (Paperback) 0231083025 9780231083027

John Lewis Gaddis acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to... more

Pre-Owned Hell from the Heavens : The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II s Greatest Kamikaze Attack 9780306823244

Looking toward the heavens the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force assembled directly above. Hell was about to be unleashed on them in the largest single-ship kamikaze attack of World War II.On April 16 1945 the... more

Pre-Owned Abandon Ship! : The Saga of the U. S. S. Indianapolis the Navy s Greatest Sea Disaster (Paperback) 9780060959210

She was a ship of destiny. Sailing across the Pacific the battle scarred heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis had just delivered a secret cargo that would trigger the end of World War II. As she was continuing westward her captain asked for a destroyer... more

Pre-Owned The Cold War Reference Guide : A General History and Annotated Chronology with Selected Biographies 9780786401734 Used

For over forty years much of the world was held captive by a conflict between two wholly incompatible economic ideologies-capitalism and communism-and the two primary superpower countries who practiced them the United States and the Soviet Union.... more

South to Java: A Novel 0933852703 (Hardcover - Used)

The crew of an old U.S. Navy destroyer steaming toward a deadly battle in the Java Sea is the focus of this famous novel set at the outbreak of World War II as the Allies attempted to defend the Philippines and Dutch East Indies against superior... more

Pre-Owned World Turned Upside Down: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Early Cold War Struggle for (Hardcover 9781597971348) by Marvin B Durning Robert K Massie

In 1955 after assignments at the US Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and on board a destroyer Marvin Durning arrived at ONI s office in Munich Germany. During this year he participated in the final stages of transforming Germany from a defeated... more

Pre-Owned The Cold War : A New History 9780143038276

Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union the author provides a thrilling account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age. The work is rich with illuminating portraits of its major personalities and fresh... more

Routledge Library Editions: Cold War Sec Contemporary Soviet Military Affairs: The Legacy of World War II (Paperback)

This book first published in 1989 is a comprehensive examination of the profound impact of World War II on Soviet military affairs. It systematically assesses the costs and lessons of the war and their substantial impact on Soviet military and Party... more

A German General on the Eastern Front (Paperback)

The Eastern Front 1941. Operation Barbarossa. Hitler s armies advance into the Soviet Union to conquer Lebensraum in the East. Among the corps commanders is General Gotthard Heinrici a career soldier a highly decorated First World War veteran who... more

Jewish Lives under Communism : New Perspectives (Hardcover)

This volume provides new groundbreaking views of Jewish life in the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second World War until the collapse of Communism in late 1989 by recovering and analyzing the agency of Jews and their creativity in Communist... more

Pre-Owned The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War (Paperback) 0465028438 9780465028436

After World War II the former allies were saddled with a devastated world economy and traumatized populace. Soviet influence spread insidiously from nation to nation and the Atlantic powers--the Americans the British and a small band of allies--were... more

Blood on the Sea: American Destroyers Lost in World War II (Paperback)

Seventy-one American destroyers went down during World War II and this meticulously researched book describes the history of each--from launch to the ship s final hours. Through these stories we travel from the stormy North Atlantic to the calm... more

Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland s Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia - Expanded Edition (Paperback)

Jan Gross describes the terrors of the Soviet occupation of the lands that made up eastern Poland between the two world wars: the Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. His lucid analysis of the revolution that came to Poland from abroad is based... more

Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination 1945-1961 (Paperback)

In the years following World War II American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living working and traveling in Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile the U.S. competing with the Soviet Union for global power... more

Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development (Hardcover)

From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II America s experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a course of rapid industrialization. Captivated by the idea of modernization diplomats journalists and... more

The Role of Ideology in the Origins of the Cold War (Paperback)

This book argues that American Exceptionalism and Eurasianism engendered the ideological principles that propelled the geostrategic interests of the United States and the Soviet Union in the post-World War Two period. The correlation between... more

The Cold War : A New History (Hardcover)

Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union the author provides a thrilling account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age rich with illuminating portraits of its major personalities and fresh insight into its... more

Russia Leaves the War Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations 1917-1920 Book I (Paperback)

The troubled days in Russia during World War I from the Bolshevik seizure of power in November 1917 to Russia s final departure from the war after the Treaty of Brest Litovsk in March 1918 are the setting of this absorbing historical narrative by... more

Cambridge Military Histories America s Wars: Interventions Regime Change and Insurgencies After the Cold War (Paperback)

The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in American global hegemony in world affairs. In the post-Cold War period both Democrat and Republican governments intervened fought insurgencies and changed regimes. In America s Wars Thomas Henriksen... more

Pre-Owned Masaryk Station: A John Russell Thriller (Hardcover) 1616952237 9781616952235

Berlin 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict creating a world of bizarre and fleeting... more

Cambridge Military Histories America s Wars: Interventions Regime Change and Insurgencies After the Cold War (Hardcover)

The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in American global hegemony in world affairs. In the post-Cold War period both Democrat and Republican governments intervened fought insurgencies and changed regimes. In America s Wars Thomas Henriksen... more

Making of the Contemporary World The Cold War (Hardcover)

The Cold War dominated international relations for forty-five years. It shaped the foreign policies of the United States and the Soviet Union and deeply affected their societies domestic situations and their government institutions. Hardly any part... more

Law and the Making of the Soviet World: The Red Demiurge (Hardcover)

This book is an unconventional reappraisal of Soviet law: a field that is ripe for re-evaluation now that it is clear of Cold War cobwebs; and as this book shows one that is surprisingly topical and newly compelling. Scott Newton argues here that... more

Exeter Studies in History: The Civilian In War : The Home Front in Europe Japan and the USA in World War II (Paperback)

A collection of essays by specialist authors covering both belligerent and occupied countries: Britain Germany the United States the former Soviet Union Japan Italy Poland France and the Netherlands. It explores the impact of the Second World War on... more

Comparison of the Economic Mobilization in World War II of the United Kingdom Germany and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with That of the United States - War College Series

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security diplomacy defense war strategy and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience and includes the latest... more

Dead Drop : Thetrue Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War s Most Dangerous Operation

9781849839297. New condition. Mass-market paperback. Language: English. B-format paperback. The astonishing true story of how the CIA MI6 and a Soviet defector saved the world in 1962 as told in the new film The Courier starring Benedict... more

Warships of the Soviet Fleets 1939-1945 Volume I: Major Combatants Volume 1 (Hardcover)

Seventy-five years after the end of the World War II the details of Soviet ships their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West. In wartime such information was classified and after a brief period of glasnost ( openness ) the Russian state... more

The Kaiser s Web: A Novel

In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry s next Cotton Malone adventure The Kaiser s Web a secret dossier from a World War II-era Soviet spy comes to light containing information that if proven true would not only rewrite history--it could impact... more

Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia (Paperback)

This book describes the struggle for power between two totalitarian dictatorships in the north of Europe and the battle for survival of a small nation caught between them. In the Winter War of 1939-1940 Finland successfully fought off a Soviet... more

Pre-Owned Jane s Naval History of WWII 9780004721439

In Jane s Naval History of World War II he covers all the different types of warship that fought from the Atlantic and Arctic to the Pacific Ocean. From aircraft carriers to submarines assault ships to destroyers and cruisers his paintings bring to... more

Second World War The Grand Alliance Book 0003 (Paperback)

The British Soviets and Americans unite in this chapter of the six-volume WWII history by the legendary prime minister and Nobel Prize recipient. The Grand Alliance describes the end of an extraordinary period in British military history in which... more

Pre-Owned Saving Freedom: Truman the Cold War and the Fight for Western Civilization (Paperback) 0062950509 9780062950505

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! History called on Harry Truman to unite the Western world against Soviet communism but first he had to rally Republicans and Democrats behind America s most dramatic foreign policy shift since George Washington delivered... more

Pre-Owned The Destroyer (Mass Market Paperback) 0515074462 9780515074468

From the author of THE FIRST TO LAND a novel set during the Second World War. They called them the Scrapyard Flotilla after a quarter of a century of service the eight destroyers had seen all kinds of action. Now they were to be used in raids to... more

Poland and the Second World War 1938-1948 (Hardcover)

The invasion of Poland by German forces (quickly joined by their then-allies the Soviets) ignited the Second World War. Despite determined resistance Poland was quickly conquered but Poles continued the struggle to the very last day of the war... more

Pre-Owned World War II Plans That Never Happened: 1939-45 (Hardcover 9781907446641) by Michael Kerrigan

A Nazi scheme to capture the Pope an IRA plan to invade Northern Ireland a British plan to attack the Soviet Union after the defeat of Hitler - it may sound unbelievable but these operations were considered by both the Allies and the Axis. This book... more

Pre-Owned The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America s Traitors Paperback

The Venona Secrets presents one of the last great untold stories of World War II and the Cold War. In 1995 the Venona documents secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted finally became... more