Search results for "Cold War"
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lawrence Watt-Evans [Watt-Evans, Lawrence]

Chapter 17 Rasche sat at the breakfast table, reading the newspaper. The front-page headline was about the American ambassador to the U.N. publicly calling the Russian ambassador a liar and ...
( Category: other May 17,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-05-14 | Author:Robert J. McMahon

Other international flashpoints also competed for the attention of policy-makers in Moscow and Washington during this crisis-filled period, many emanating from the ever-turbulent Third World. Although the end of empire ...
( Category: Americas May 14,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Michael McFaul

At the end of my sophomore year at Stanford University, I traveled from Bozeman, Montana, to Leningrad, USSR, June 1983. It was my first trip abroad. Courtesy of the author ...
( Category: Politics & Government May 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-14 | Author:R G Ainslee [Ainslee, R G]

Tuesday, 2 October At the morning briefing, Wyndham prepared to present his daily update. His mood hadn't changed for the better. His clever eyes shifted to me and back to ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction May 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Grace Kennan Warnecke

CHAPTER 7 New Waters My new single life in San Francisco was jolted by a telephone call from John Wasserman, the funny and outrageous music critic of the San Francisco ...
( Category: Historical May 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Hoffman, David [Hoffman, David]

Akhromeyev. Gorbachev called Chernyaev at home that evening. "We discredited the country, humiliated our people," Gorbachev said, according to Chernyaev's account. Gorbachev wondered if he should have resigned too. Then ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Hoffman, David E. [Hoffman, David E.]

The most devastating defeat for the Soviet military in 1987 came not directly from Gorbachev, but he exploited it. It came at the hands of a dreamy nineteen-year-old youth who ...
( Category: Military April 26,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-09-27 | Author:Max Frankel

KENNEDY HAD OUTPERFORMED Gromyko but he faced still greater tests of his acting skills on Friday, when he finally confronted the Joint Chiefs of Staff before flying off on what ...
( Category: Russia April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hans-Joachim Heintze & Pierre Thielbörger

3 Potential and Areas of Research While the tragic events of 2001 resulted in a “chilling effect” on the use of the concept by States and international organisations, research continued ...
( Category: Health, Fitness & Dieting April 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-30 | Author:Ian Proctor [Proctor, Ian]

Three airmen from 37 (Field) Squadron, RAF Regiment, each armed with a LIAI Self-Loading Rifle, man a piquet in the mountains overlooking the airfield at Thumeir Aden, c. May 1964. ...
( Category: Arts & Photography April 21,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Levin [Levin, Matthew]

Ellen Lehman’s statement echoed many Americans’ moral outrage against the war, and while the State Department protest was the first of its kind for the antiwar movement in Madison, it ...
( Category: Education & Teaching April 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-18 | Author:Rubin, Barnett R.

Corruption • Afghanistan’s weak administration has few if any effective controls over corruption, which has undermined support for the government. Some systems have been instituted to prevent the most important ...
( Category: other April 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Archambault, Alan H. [Archambault, Alan H.]

Soldiers of the 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division march on Gray Army Airfield during the reactivation ceremonies held on April 21, 1972. The large blue flag is the regimental ...
( Category: Arts & Photography April 15,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-30 | Author:David Gledhill [Gledhill, David]

Being based in continental Europe, the squadrons were better able to liaise with NATO counterparts and visits to the F-104 base at Aalborg, the Mirage III base at Dijon and ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 14,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Frances Stonor Saunders [Saunders, Frances Stonor]

First Lieutenant Michael Josselson, Berlin, 1948. A Cultural Affairs Officer for the American Military Government, he would shortly be recruited to the CIA. Tom Braden, the CIA agent who put ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 14,2018 )

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