From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War 0684810816, 0684834979, 9781439127483

Written by a former director of the CIA, this is the story of America's and the agency's role in the collapse

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English Pages 630 Year 2011

From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
0684810816, 0684834979, 9781439127483

More than 70 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this is the classic book about the principal architects of victory

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Virtually unknown to the public or historians, White House photographers have developed amazing access to the presidents

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Memoirs of a top American propagandist during the Cold ward describing how the Americans fabricated and disseminated hos

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Mention Girl Guides to any woman and the reaction will be strong. They either loved them or hated them; they were either

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From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising narrative of America’s wartime chie

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The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin

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Finally the Truth about the Rise of the West Modernity developed only in the West—in Europe and North America. Nowhere e

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In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances

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"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril," wrote Winston Churchill i

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The Bridge in the Parks examines how security and counter-intelligence functioned during the early Cold War.

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