Cold War East Anglia

Author : Jim Wilson OBE
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958863
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War: East Anglia written by Jim Wilson OBE and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how the Cold War impacted on the people of East Anglia. Had nuclear conflict broken out, the region would have found itself as the target of a Soviet strike for the simple reason that it housed the launch pad for not only the British deterrent, but also America's first line of defence. The book also examines the early development of the UK's nuclear arsenal, with ballistic and environmental testing of nuclear bombs at Orford Ness and storage and maintenance at one of the country's most secret sites, Barnham. Cold War: East Anglia reveals the secrets of the years of confrontation, and looks at what life might have been like had the Cold War turned 'hot'.

Author : Jim Wilson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958863
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War: East Anglia written by Jim Wilson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how the Cold War impacted on the people of East Anglia. Had nuclear conflict broken out, the region would have found itself as the target of a Soviet strike for the simple reason that it housed the launch pad for not only the British deterrent, but also America’s first line of defence. The book also examines the early development of the UK’s nuclear arsenal, with ballistic and environmental testing of nuclear bombs at Orford Ness and storage and maintenance at one of the country’s most secret sites, Barnham.Cold War: East Anglia reveals the secrets of the years of confrontation, and looks at what life might have been like had the Cold War turned ‘hot’.

Author : Christopher Sutton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319334913
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain’s Cold War in Cyprus and Hong Kong written by Christopher Sutton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking two defining narratives of the twentieth century, Sutton’s comparative study of Hong Kong and Cyprus – where two of the empire’s most effective communist parties operated – examines how British colonial policy-makers took to cultural and ideological battlegrounds to fight the anti-colonial imperialism of their communist enemies in the Cold War. The structure and intentional nature of the British colonial system grants unprecedented access to British perceptions and strategies, which sought to balance constructive socio-political investments with regressive and self-defeating repression, neither of which Britain could afford in the Cold War conflict of empires.

Author : Anne Deighton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain and the First Cold War written by Anne Deighton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Wilson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781599165
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Launch Pad UK written by Jim Wilson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most British people the weekend of 27/28 October 1962 could so very easily have been their last weekend on earth, yet astonishingly the fact that Britain's nuclear deterrent forces went to an unprecedented level of readiness was kept secret from the public. Thor nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles stood on a round-the-clock wartime state of alert ready to be fired, these were the 'other' missiles of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which made Britain, in effect, America's launch pad. During the height of the crisis both RAF Bomber Command and the US Strategic Air Command were poised at the highest states of readiness. Both were ordered to a level of war readiness unparalleled throughout the whole of the forty years of Cold War. There is evidence to suggest that had the US needed to launch an air strike against Russian missiles in Cuba, President Kennedy might have been willing to absorb a Soviet nuclear assault on a NATO ally without retaliation, if it would have avoided escalation to World War Three. It is sobering to those who lived through that period that, the British Ambassador to Cuba commented: 'If it was a nuclear war we were headed for, Cuba was perhaps a better place to be than Britain!'

Author : Anne Deighton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349107565
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain and the Cold War written by Anne Deighton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection challenges views of the Cold War as a purely bipolar affair, involving only the United States and the Soviet Union. It shows that Britain took a lead and continued to play an part in a drive to contain communism and that she tried to keep her own position as a great world power.

Author : Yezid Sayigh
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191571512
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cold War and the Middle East written by Yezid Sayigh and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1997-05-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War has been researched in minute detail and written about at great length but it remains one of the most elusive and enigmatic conflicts of modern times. With the ending of the Cold War, it is now possible to review the entire post-war period, to examine the Cold War as history. The Middle East occupies a special place in the history of the Cold War. It was critical to its birth, its life and its demise. In the aftermath of the Second World War, it became one of the major theatres of the Cold War on account of its strategic importance and its oil resources. The key to the international politics of the Middle East during the Cold War era is the relationship between external powers and local powers. Most of the existing literature on the subject focuses on the policies of the Great Powers towards the local region. The Cold War and the Middle East redresses the balance by concentrating on the policies of the local actors. It looks at the politics of the region not just from the outside in but from the inside out. The contributors to this volume are leading scholars in the field whose interests combine International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies.

Author : Martin Walker
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805034547
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cold War written by Martin Walker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cold War was more of a global conflict than was either of this century's two major wars; far more than a confrontation between states or even empires, it was, as Martin Walker puts it, "a total war between economic and social systems, an industrial test to destruction."".

Author : Bob Clarke
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752488252
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Cold War written by Bob Clarke and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.' So said Winston Churchill in 1946. About to begin was Britain's most expensive and turbulent periods of military history. Four Minute Warning is the story of Britain's Cold War, and it deals with all aspects of this chilling time when Britain could have been obliterated so easily by the unleashing of Russian Nuclear Weapons. The Cold War was like no other conflict yet experienced. It was more than a struggle between two superpowers, it was a war of ideologies, the Capitalistic West and the Communist East. The Cold War leached its way into every facet of British life to the extent it was not really considered a war at all. But a war it was. The period was punctuated by an arms race which pushed the world to the edge of destruction, as both East and West amassed arsenals of nuclear weapons far beyond what would be needed to destroy, quite literally, everything. So what part did Britain play in all this? Read on and find out!

Author : Simo Mikkonen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782388672
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Divide written by Simo Mikkonen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide. Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were institutions, organizations, and individuals who brought people from the East and the West together, joined by shared professions, ideas, and sometimes even through marriage. The volume aims at proving that the post-WWII histories of Western and Eastern Europe were entangled by looking at cases involving France, Denmark, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, and others.