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In the Shadow of the Cold War - American Foreign Policy from George Bush Sr. to Donald Trump by Timothy J. Lynch
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Essential Histories Ser.
This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. In chapters that retell and re-argue the key episodes of the post-Cold War years, Lynch argues that the Cold War cast a shadow on the presidents that came after it and that succ ...Show more
THE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA by EAKIN MARSHALL C
Category: History | Series: Palgrave Essential Histories Series
The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 by Efraim Karsh
Category: Military | Series: Essential Histories Ser.
The Iran-Iraq War, which ended in August 1988, one month short of its eighth anniversary, was one of the longest, bloodiest and costliest Third World armed conflicts in the twentieth century. Professor Karsh addresses the causes of the Iran-Iraq War, unpacking the objectives of the two belligerents and ...Show more
The Korean War by Carter Malkasian
Category: Military | Series: Essential Histories Ser.
The Korean War was a significant turning point in the Cold War. This book explains how the conflict in a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and the balance of power between the two superpowers, America and Russia. Through the conflict, the West demons ...Show more
The Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-89 by Gregory Barnes; Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Category: Military | Series: Essential Histories Ser.
The Soviet invasion of neighbouring Afghanistan in December 1979 sparked a bloody nine-year conflict with the Mujahideen until Soviet forces withdrew in 1988-89, dooming the communist Afghanistan government to defeat by Afghan popular resistance backed by the USA and other powers. The Soviet invasion ha ...Show more
The Vietnam War by Andy Wiest (Professor of History and Director, Vietnam Studies Program and Co-director, Center for the Study of War and Society, University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
Category: Military | Series: Essential Histories Ser.
America entered the Vietnam War certain of its moral mission to save the world from the advance of communism. As this title explains, however, the war was not at all what the US expected. Outnumbered and outgunned the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces resorted to a guerrilla war.