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Author : Kempton Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Nimble Books LLC
Release Date : 2010
Cold War Saga written by Kempton Jenkins and has been published by Nimble Books LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For years, historians have dug into the archives, exploring the nuances of how the cold war was fought. But there is no substitute for the first-person testimony of the man who was there--in the pit--in the head-to-head confrontations in Moscow and Berlin and the Third World, in the decades when East and West struggled for supremacy. Kempton Jenkins was there at every turn; his memoir is a unique personal story as well as a valuable document in diplomatic history."-Ernest B. Furgueson, former Bureau Chief of the Baltimore Sun Moscow, Saigon and Washington, DC offices "As a Foreign Service veteran, I know a good FSO when I see one. Kempton Jenkins was one of the best (as he notes, at one point I tried to hire him). "Jenks'" voyage through a varied and stimulating career takes us from Asia to Berlin to Moscow to South America and to three different agencies, State, Commerce and USIA. Each assignment has its special challenges, which come to life under Kempton's facile pen. He highlights the issues and introduces the reader to the players, some good some bad. Yet Kempton demonstrates that our diplomacy worked; we more than coped. We shaped events. Reading his book is the closest you can become to being an FSO during an exciting and crucial period in our diplomacy."-Frank Carlucci "Cold War Saga provides a fascinating insider's view, enriched by personal experience. Jenkins' portraits of key cold war personalities, with whom he worked-Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, Henry Kissinger, and Soviet Ambassador Dobryin-are especially revealing. A great read - Helen Thomas To us veterans of the Cold War's diplomatic front lines, Kempton Jenkins tells it like it was. He names the key players, gives a keen insight into their character, and shows why some were heroes and some villains. Cold War Saga is an absorbing read. If you fought with Jenks in the political trenches it will stir fond memories. If you didn't, it will take you there, and you won't forget where you've been or what was at stake. -Jack F. Matlock, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the USSR, 1987-1991.
The Richard Jackson Saga
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Author : Ed Nelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06-21
The Richard Jackson Saga written by Ed Nelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-21 with categories.
The Richard Jackson SagaBook 9: Cold War In the early 1960s the Cold War intensifies as does Rick involvement.The KGB and the East Germany Stasi start it, but Rick finishes it. Trying to capture him is one thing, kidnapping Mary is another. With humor, we follow a young man's coming of age in the late 1950s. Starting in the summer before his freshman year it follows him through his high school life and beyond. He finds fame and fortune as an inventor and wealth in Hollywood as he searches for a girlfriend. Wealth and fame prove far easier than girls.As his life at Oxford becomes routine his duties as a Queen's Messenger prove challenging to the extreme.This tongue in cheek saga is all true, give or take a lie or two.
The Richard Jackson Saga
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Author : Ed Nelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-09
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Coming of age stories don't have to be all teenage angst, they can be fun-filled adventures. With humor, we follow a young man's coming of age in the late 1950s. Starting in the summer before his freshman year it follows him through high school and beyond. He finds wealth as an inventor and fame in Hollywood as he searches for a girlfriend. Wealth and fame prove far easier than girls.The sixth book, 'Surfing Dude,' has Rick working and living in California while preparing for a surfing movie to be filmed in Hawaii. Continuing his Heroic ways he finds that like the rest of the world, films do not always go as planned.From Chipmunks to Tigers the animal kingdom has its dangers. Throw in a group of crooked town officials, follow up with a flight crew down with food poisoning and our young man has his hands full. While money keeps pouring in he doesn't seem to have much luck with pretty girls, at least the luck a fifteen-year-old boy wants.This tongue in cheek saga is all true, give or take a lie or two.
On The Brink
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Author : Jay Winik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
On The Brink written by Jay Winik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Current Events categories.
This sweeping, dramatic narrative of the making and unmaking of foreign policy during the Reagan years is told through the stories of three men and one woman who changed history during one of the world's most decisive and divisive decades. On the Brink also reveals the personal tolls their roles took on these four diplomats, and their contributions to the collapse of communism. 16 photos.
The Cold War
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Author : Michael Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Harmony House Publishing
Release Date : 2024-03-29
The Cold War written by Michael Johnson and has been published by Harmony House Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-29 with History categories.
Explore the riveting saga of the Cold War, from its tumultuous beginnings to its epochal conclusion. Unveil the geopolitical chessboard of post-World War II as the United States and the Soviet Union ascend as superpowers, igniting tensions that reverberate worldwide. From the Truman Doctrine to the Cuban Missile Crisis, McCarthyism to the Vietnam War, delve into the ideological battlegrounds and proxy conflicts that defined an era. Witness the thaw of détente and the seismic shifts of perestroika, culminating in the historic collapse of the Soviet Union. Experience the legacy and lessons of this epochal standoff, resonating into the 21st century.
Cold War
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Author : Hourly History
language : en
Publisher: Hourly History
Release Date : 2016-11-20
Cold War written by Hourly History and has been published by Hourly History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-20 with History categories.
The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted from the end of World War II until the end of the 1980s. Over the course of five decades, they never came to blows directly. Rather, these two world superpowers competed in other arenas that would touch almost every corner of the globe. Inside you will read about... ✓ What Was the Cold War? ✓ The Origins of the Cold War ✓ World War II and the Beginning of the Cold War ✓ The Cold War in the 1950s ✓ The Cold War in the 1960s ✓ The Cold War in the 1970s ✓ The Cold War in the 1980s and the End of the Cold War Both interfered in the affairs of other countries to win allies for their opposing ideologies. In the process, governments were destabilized, ideas silenced, revolutions broke out, and culture was controlled. This overview of the Cold War provides the story of how these two countries came to oppose one another, and the impact it had on them and others around the world.
The Cold War
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Author : Odd Arne Westad
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-08-31
The Cold War written by Odd Arne Westad and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-31 with History categories.
'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines, TLS, Books of the Year As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War. For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. There was no part of the world where East and West did not, ultimately, demand a blind and absolute allegiance, and nowhere into which the West and East did not reach. Countries as remote from each other as Korea, Angola and Cuba were defined by their allegiances. Almost all civil wars became proxy conflicts for the superpowers. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely. Arne Westad's remarkable new book is the first to have the distance from these events and the ambition to create a convincing, powerful narrative of the Cold War. The book is genuinely global in its reach and captures the dramas and agonies of a period always overshadowed by the horror of nuclear war and which, for millions of people, was not 'cold' at all: a time of relentless violence, squandered opportunities and moral failure. This is a book of extraordinary scope and daring. It is conventional to see the first half of the 20th century as a nightmare and the second half as a reprieve. Westad shows that for much of the world the second half was by most measures even worse.
The Cold War And Asian Cinemas
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Author : Poshek Fu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-28
The Cold War And Asian Cinemas written by Poshek Fu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-28 with Performing Arts categories.
This book offers an interdisciplinary, historically grounded study of Asian cinemas’ complex responses to the Cold War conflict. It situates the global ideological rivalry within regional and local political, social, and cultural processes, while offering a transnational and cross-regional focus. This volume makes a major contribution to constructing a cultural and popular cinema history of the global Cold War. Its geographical focus is set on East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. In adopting such an inclusive approach, it draws attention to the different manifestations and meanings of the connections between the Cold War and cinema across Asian borders. Many essays in the volume have a transnational and cross-regional focus, one that sheds light on Cold War-influenced networks (such as the circulation of socialist films across communist countries) and on the efforts of American agencies (such as the United States Information Service and the Asia Foundation) to establish a transregional infrastructure of "free cinema" to contain the communist influences in Asia. With its interdisciplinary orientation and broad geographical focus, the book will appeal to scholars and students from a wide variety of fields, including film studies, history (especially the burgeoning field of cultural Cold War studies), Asian studies, and US-Asian cultural relations.
Spy Trader
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Author : Craig R. Whitney
language : en
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date : 1994
Spy Trader written by Craig R. Whitney and has been published by Three Rivers Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
A true-life spy saga THE NEW YORK TIMES hails as "a fascinating tale, the material of John Le Carre and Len Deighton" and John Le Carre, himself, calls, "a revelation" is now in papareback. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Bridge Of Spies
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Author : Giles Whittell
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2010-11-09
Bridge Of Spies written by Giles Whittell and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-09 with History categories.
The “riveting, meticulously researched, and beautifully written” (Ben Macintyre, author of The Spy and the Traitor) true story chronicles the first and most legendary prisoner exchange of the Cold War, between East and West at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie “A marvelous saga of dangerous missions, helter-skelter innovation, and clandestine activity.”—The Wall Street Journal Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first prisoner exchange of the nuclear age? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that electrifying moment on February 10, 1962, when their fates helped to define the conflicts and lethal undercurrents of the most dangerous years of the cold war. Bridge of Spies is the true story of three extraordinary characters—William Fisher, alias Rudolf Abel, a British-born KGB agent arrested by the FBI in New York City and jailed as a Soviet superspy for trying to steal America’s most precious nuclear secrets; Gary Powers, the American U-2 pilot who was captured when his plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over central Russia; and Frederic Pryor, a young American graduate student in Berlin mistakenly identified as a spy, arrested, and held without charge by the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police. Giles Whittell masterfully weaves the three strands of this story together and reconstructs the brinkmanship and covert mind games that brought the United States and Soviet Union so close to a hot war in the early 1960s. The exchange that day at two of the most sensitive points along the Iron Curtain represented the first step back from where the superpowers had stood since the building of the Berlin Wall the previous summer—on the brink of World War III.