Trapped In The Cold War
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Author |
: Hermann H. Field |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 494 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804744319 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804744317 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Trapped in the Cold War by : Hermann H. Field
The disappearance behind the Iron Curtain of the American brothers Noel and Hermann Field in 1949, followed by that of Noels wife and their foster daughter, was one of the most publicized international mysteries of the Cold War. This dual memoir gives an intensely human dimension to that struggle, with Hermann narrating all that happened to him from the day he was abducted from the Warsaw airport to his release five years later, and Kate relating her unrelenting efforts to find her husband. Thousands of potential victims of Hitlers dragnet were rescued in 1939 and during World War II through separate efforts of the Field brothers. Arrested in Czechoslovakia in 1949, Noel was taken to Hungary and used as an example of American perfidy in show trials. Hermann went to Poland primarily to find out what had happened to his brother. After Hermanns abduction, he was taken to the cellar of a secret Polish prison, where he was held for five years. He gives us a detailed account of his battle to survive, alternating despair and horror with mordant humor. Meanwhile, his family had no idea whether he was still alive and if so, where. This moving story, based on detailed notes made by the authors during and shortly after the events described, presents an inside-outside counterpoint, as Hermanns chapters on his inward journey in his cellar world alternate with Kates efforts in London to find him by scrutinizing accounts of political events in Eastern Europe for clues and penetrating the diplomatic corridors of power in the West for help. Hermann had been arrested by a Polish security agent who later defected and became one of the Wests most important informants on Soviet operations in Eastern Europe. The search for the Field brothers was complicated by their history of leftist connections, for this tense period in the Cold War was also the era of McCarthyism in the United States. The book ends with an Epilogue that analyzes the events of fifty years ago in the light of what we know today, as the result of newly available archival material.
Author |
: Ian Lustick |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2006-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0812239830 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780812239836 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Trapped in the War on Terror by : Ian Lustick
"Ian Lustick has written a brave, forceful, and very valuable book. I wish that every politician promising to 'defend' America would read what he has to say. Failing that, the voters should."—James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly
Author |
: Mark Danner |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476747774 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476747776 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spiral by : Mark Danner
Introduction -- Bush : imposing the exception : constitutional dictatorship, torture, and us -- Obama : normalizing the exception : terror, fear, and the war without end -- Afterword.
Author |
: Robert Grenville |
Publisher |
: Amber Books Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 211 |
Release |
: 2023-03-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781782749882 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1782749888 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Abandoned Cold War Places by : Robert Grenville
Featuring 170 striking photographs, Abandoned Cold War Places is a fascinating visual history of the relics left behind by both sides from the late 1940s to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Author |
: Melvyn P. Leffler |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 1032 |
Release |
: 2008-09-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429964098 |
ISBN-13 |
: 142996409X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis For the Soul of Mankind by : Melvyn P. Leffler
To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did that happen? What caused the cold war in the first place, and why did it last as long as it did? The distinguished historian Melvyn P. Leffler homes in on four crucial episodes when American and Soviet leaders considered modulating, avoiding, or ending hostilities and asks why they failed: Stalin and Truman devising new policies after 1945; Malenkov and Eisenhower exploring the chance for peace after Stalin's death in 1953; Kennedy, Khrushchev, and LBJ trying to reduce tensions after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962; and Brezhnev and Carter aiming to sustain détente after the Helsinki Conference of 1975. All these leaders glimpsed possibilities for peace, yet they allowed ideologies, political pressures, the expectations of allies and clients, the dynamics of the international system, and their own fearful memories to trap them in a cycle of hostility that seemed to have no end. For the Soul of Mankind illuminates how Reagan, Bush, and, above all, Gorbachev finally extricated themselves from the policies and mind-sets that had imprisoned their predecessors, and were able to reconfigure Soviet-American relations after decades of confrontation.
Author |
: Seth Bernstein |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2023-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501767401 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501767402 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Return to the Motherland by : Seth Bernstein
Return to the Motherland follows those who were displaced to the Third Reich back to the Soviet Union after the victory over Germany. At the end of World War II, millions of people from Soviet lands were living as refugees outside the borders of the USSR. Most had been forced laborers and prisoners of war, deported to the Third Reich to work as racial inferiors in a crushing environment. Seth Bernstein reveals the secret history of repatriation, the details of the journey, and the new identities, prospects, and dangers for migrants that were created by the tumult of war. He uses official and personal sources from declassified holdings in post-Soviet archives, more than one hundred oral history interviews, and transnational archival material. Most notably, he makes extensive use of secret police files declassified only after the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine in 2014. The stories described in Return to the Motherland reveal not only how the USSR grappled with the aftermath of war but also the universality of Stalinism's refugee crisis. While arrest was not guaranteed, persecution was ubiquitous. Within Soviet society, returnees met with a cold reception that demanded hard labor as payment for perceived disloyalty, soldiers perpetrated rape against returning Soviet women, and ordinary people avoided contact with repatriates, fearing arrest as traitors and spies. As Bernstein describes, Soviet displacement presented a challenge to social order and the opportunity to rebuild the country as a great power after a devastating war.
Author |
: Greg Mitchell |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 410 |
Release |
: 2016-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101903865 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101903864 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Tunnels by : Greg Mitchell
A thrilling Cold War narrative of superpower showdowns, media suppression, and two escape tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall. In the summer of 1962, the year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture, and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. Then two U.S. television networks heard about the secret projects and raced to be first to document them from the inside. NBC and CBS funded two separate tunnels in return for the right to film the escapes, planning spectacular prime-time specials. President John F. Kennedy, however, was wary of anything that might spark a confrontation with the Soviets, having said, “A wall is better than a war,” and even confessing to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, “We don’t care about East Berlin.” JFK approved unprecedented maneuvers to quash both documentaries, testing the limits of a free press in an era of escalating nuclear tensions. As Greg Mitchell’s riveting narrative unfolds, we meet extraordinary characters: the legendary cyclist who became East Germany’s top target for arrest; the Stasi informer who betrays the “CBS tunnel”; the American student who aided the escapes; an engineer who would later help build the tunnel under the English channel; and the young East Berliner who fled with her baby, then married one of the tunnelers. The Tunnels captures the chilling reach of the Stasi secret police as U.S. networks prepared to “pay for play” but were willing to cave to official pressure, the White House was eager to suppress historic coverage, and ordinary people in dire circumstances became subversive. The Tunnels is breaking history, a propulsive read whose themes still reverberate.
Author |
: Nathan Hale |
Publisher |
: Abrams |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 2021-10-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781647004835 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1647004837 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cold War Correspondent (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #11) by : Nathan Hale
Discover the Korean War through the eyes of the journalist who covered it in this installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series In 1950, Marguerite Higgins (1920–1966) was made bureau chief of the Far East Asia desk for the New York Herald Tribune. Tensions were high on the Korean peninsula, where a border drawn after WWII split the country into North and South. When the North Korean army crossed the border with Soviet tanks, it was war. Marguerite was there when the Communists captured Seoul. She fled with the refugees heading south, but when the bridges were blown over the Han River, she was trapped in enemy territory. Her eyewitness account of the invasion was a newspaper smash hit. She risked her life in one dangerous situation after another––all for the sake of good story. Then she was told that women didn’t belong on the frontlines. The United States Army officially ordered her out of Korea. She appealed to General Douglas MacArthur, and he personally lifted the ban on female war correspondents, which allowed her the chance to report on many of the major events of the Korean War. Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales are graphic novels that tell the thrilling, shocking, gruesome, and TRUE stories of American history. Read them all—if you dare!
Author |
: A. F. Chew |
Publisher |
: DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 56 |
Release |
: 1981 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781428915985 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1428915982 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fighting the Russians in Winter: Three Case Studies by : A. F. Chew
Author |
: Tim Tzouliadis |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 582 |
Release |
: 2011-06-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748130313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748130314 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Forsaken by : Tim Tzouliadis
Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands of men, women and children to Stalin's Russia. Where capitalism had failed them, Communism promised dignity for the working man, racial equality, and honest labour. What in fact awaited them, however, was the most monstrous betrayal. In a remarkable piece of historical investigation that spans seven decades of political change, Tim Tzouliadis follows these thousands from Pittsburgh and Detroit and Los Angeles, as their numbers dwindle on their epic and terrible journey. Through official records, memoirs, newspaper reports and interviews he searches the most closely guarded archive in modern history to reconstruct their story - one of honesty, vitality and idealism brought up against the brutal machinery of repression. His account exposes the self-serving American diplomats who refused their countrymen sanctuary, it analyses international relations and economic causes but also finds space to retrieve individual acts of kindness and self-sacrifice.