My Cold War

Author : Ann Diamond
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0973900431
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Cold War written by Ann Diamond and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On a day in the spring of 1956, my parents dressed my brother and me in brand new outfits, my mother put on makeup and her best, camel-hair coat, and we all went for a drive in the countryside near Montreal. We took along our puppy, Smokey, wrapped in a blanket in case he peed on the seats of our new car. Not long before, my father had agreed to enrol me in a special program, whose directors were very interested in bright little girls like me." So begins Ann Diamond's terrifying tale of growing up in Canada during the Cold War -- an era when secrecy ran rampant, ruining careers and lives. This is the true story of one family caught in a dangerous web of deception. Ann Diamond is an award-winning Canadian writer.

Author : Tom Piazza
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060533410
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Cold War written by Tom Piazza and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp, searching novel of an American son and the family he left behind 埦rom a writer of rare breadth and human insight. My Cold War is a critically acclaimed debut novel of extraordinary depth and range : the story of a man's alienation and attempts at reconnection with his family, and a rich exploration of the thorny implications of American popular culture. At its center is John Delano, a professor of Cold War Studies and successful mass–market historian a la Stephen Ambrose or Ken Burns. Raised by an awkward, embittered father and a frustrated mother in a Levittown–style suburb on Long Island, Delano has made a name for himself as a gimmicky interpreter of Cold War America, a controversial but popular repackager of events like the JFK assassination for those who lived through them without noticing. And yet, as the novel opens, Delano has reached an impasse: during a crisis of confidence, he shelves a major new book project in favor of a quest to drive to the Midwest and seek out his estranged younger brother. But when the trip ends in a sobering discovery that his brother has led a life of desperate transience, grasping at straws and scapegoats 埨e undergoes an epiphany that propels him back to the newly sacred ground where he and his brother were raised. Long recognized as a writer of exceptional vision and unflinching candor, Tom Piazza has crafted a novel full of incident and argument, a book that speaks with depth and range about what it has meant to be American in our time.

Author : Colleen Doody
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094441
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Detroit's Cold War written by Colleen Doody and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on meticulous archival research focusing on Detroit, Colleen Doody shows how conflict over business values and opposition to labor, anticommunism, racial animosity, and religion led to the development of a conservative ethos in the aftermath of World War II. Using Detroit--with its large population of African-American and Catholic immigrant workers, strong union presence, and starkly segregated urban landscape--as a case study, Doody articulates a nuanced understanding of anticommunism during the Red Scare. Looking beyond national politics, she focuses on key debates occurring at the local level among a wide variety of common citizens. In examining this city's social and political fabric, Doody illustrates that domestic anticommunism was a cohesive, multifaceted ideology that arose less from Soviet ideological incursion than from tensions within the American public.

Author : James M. Hawes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510734198
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Navy SEAL written by James M. Hawes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a Navy SEAL tells the story of the US's clandestine operations in North Vietnam and the Congo during the Cold War. Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a basic understanding of his mission: recruit a mercenary navy and suppress the Soviet- and Chinese-backed rebels engaged in guerilla movements against a pro-Western government. He knew the United States must preserve deniability, so he would be abandoned in any life-threatening situation; he did not know that Che Guevara attempting to export his revolution a few miles away. Cold War Navy SEAL gives unprecedented insight into a clandestine chapter in US history through the experiences of Hawes, a distinguished Navy frogman and later a CIA contractor. His journey began as an officer in the newly-formed SEAL Team 2, which then led him to Vietnam in 1964 to train hit-and-run boat teams who ran clandestine raids into North Vietnam. Those raids directly instigated the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. The CIA tapped Hawes to deploy to the Congo, where he would be tasked with creating and leading a paramilitary navy on Lake Tanganyika to disrupt guerilla action in the country. According to the US government, he did not, and could not, exist; he was on his own, 1400 miles from his closest allies, with only periodic letters via air-drop as communication. Hawes recalls recruiting and managing some of the most dangerous mercenaries in Africa, battling rebels with a crew of anti-Castro Cuban exiles, and learning what the rest of the intelligence world was dying to know: the location of Che Guevara. In vivid detail that rivals any action movie, Hawes describes how he and his team discovered Guevara leading the communist rebels on the other side and eventually forced him from the country, accomplishing a seemingly impossible mission. Complete with never-before-seen photographs and interviews with fellow operatives in the Congo, Cold War Navy SEAL is an unblinking look at a portion of Cold War history never before told.

Author : Tom Piazza
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060533412
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Cold War written by Tom Piazza and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp, searching novel of an American son and the family he left behind 埦rom a writer of rare breadth and human insight. My Cold War is a critically acclaimed debut novel of extraordinary depth and range : the story of a man's alienation and attempts at reconnection with his family, and a rich exploration of the thorny implications of American popular culture. At its center is John Delano, a professor of Cold War Studies and successful mass–market historian a la Stephen Ambrose or Ken Burns. Raised by an awkward, embittered father and a frustrated mother in a Levittown–style suburb on Long Island, Delano has made a name for himself as a gimmicky interpreter of Cold War America, a controversial but popular repackager of events like the JFK assassination for those who lived through them without noticing. And yet, as the novel opens, Delano has reached an impasse: during a crisis of confidence, he shelves a major new book project in favor of a quest to drive to the Midwest and seek out his estranged younger brother. But when the trip ends in a sobering discovery that his brother has led a life of desperate transience, grasping at straws and scapegoats 埨e undergoes an epiphany that propels him back to the newly sacred ground where he and his brother were raised. Long recognized as a writer of exceptional vision and unflinching candor, Tom Piazza has crafted a novel full of incident and argument, a book that speaks with depth and range about what it has meant to be American in our time.

Author : Ambush Alley Ambush Alley Games
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849085374
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Gone Hot written by Ambush Alley Ambush Alley Games and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.†? – Ronald Reagan, 1984. With these words, spoken as a sound check to a radio broadcast, President Reagan came dangerously close to igniting the long-simmering Cold War. Although Soviet forces were placed on alert following reports of this comment, the full-scale conflict between the West and the Soviet Bloc did not break out. Cold War Gone Hot, the latest companion volume for Force on Force, looks at the 44-year history of the Cold War and asks: "what if?†? With the orders of battle, vehicle stats and missions included in this volume, Force on Force players can simulate the advance of Soviet tanks across Western Europe, a thrust into Alaska, or any number of other plausible scenarios where history took a slightly different path.

Author : Timothy J. Lynch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521199875
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Cold War written by Timothy J. Lynch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines American engagement with the world from the fall of Soviet communism through the opening years of the Trump administration.

Author : Landry Brewer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467146633
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Kansas written by Landry Brewer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kansas played an outsized role in the Cold War, when civilization's survival hung in the balance. Forbes Air Force Base operated nine Atlas E intercontinental ballistic missile launch sites. Schilling Air Force Base was the hub for twelve Atlas F ICBMs. McConnell Air Force Base operated eighteen Titan II ICBMs. A Kansas State University engineering professor converted a discarded Union Pacific Railroad water tank into his family's backyard fallout shelter. A United States president from Kansas faced several nuclear war scares as the Cold War moved into the thermonuclear age. Landry Brewer tells the fascinating story of highest-level national strategy and how everyday Kansans lived with threats to their way of life.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning the Cold War written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terry Burke
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459700821
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Soldier written by Terry Burke and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The danger of participating in live-fire exercises and a Christmas spent in a military prison are described in detail in this graphic picture of military life at the height of the Cold War. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an ’iron curtain’ has descended across the continent." These words, uttered by Winston Churchill in 1946, heralded the beginning of the Cold War. In this first-hand account of a NATO soldier, Terry Stoney Burke paints a graphic picture of military life at the height of the Cold War. From the trials and tribulations of basic training, through his progress of becoming an infantryman and explosive specialist, to his posting in Germany, his pull no punches narrative tells the sometimes humorous, often poignant, story of life as a common soldier. Cold War Soldieris not a book for veterans alone. Burkes explanations of military procedures, weapons, and army life strike a happy balance between reminding ex-servicemen of things they knew but may have forgotten, and creating a clear picture for the military novice.