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121) Fail-safe
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A computer malfunction causes nuclear-equipped American bombers to destroy Moscow and the president of the United States has to take terrible measures to appease the Soviets and prevent all-out nuclear war.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
x, 369 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Description
""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 530 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimile, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
The author presents the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West's greatest espionage operations of the Cold War--and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvi, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Description
"The thrilling never-before-told story of Agent Sniper, one of the Cold War's most effective counter-agents Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was one of the most important spies of the early Cold War. For two and a half years at the end of the 1950s,as a Lt. Colonel at the top of Poland's espionage service, he smuggled more than 5,000 top-secret Soviet bloc intelligence and military documents, as well as 160 rolls of microfilm, out from behind...
125) Agent Sonya
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
12 CDs (14 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Pubishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 538 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimilies, photographs, maps ; 24 cm
Description
In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century—the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis—American President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, and a host of their advisors. Combining in-depth...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 322 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missiles. The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people,...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 810 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The changeling: Beatrice-Joanna is betrothed to one man, but loves another. She hires her father's servant to kill her betrothed, but is then horrified at what she has done.
The apple cart: The king must match wits with an unruly mistress and a cabinet wanting a constitutional monarchy.
Caesar and Claretta: The story of Mussolini and his lover, Claretta Petacci on their last night together.
The philanthropist: A circle of friends talks of unimportant...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"From master storyteller and historian H.W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter about the possible use of atomic weapons in response to China's...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War, told from the first-person perspective of Eva Dillon, the daughter of one of these spies. With impeccable insider access to both families as well as CIA officers, Dillon offers a riveting true-life spy thriller told in the tradition of a family memoir"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
587 pages
Description
"James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center of the mammoth threats and challenges of the twentieth century. As a young eminent chemist, he supervised the production of poison gas in WWI. As a controversial president of Harvard University, he was a champion of meritocracy and open admissions. As an advisor to FDR, he led the interventionist cause for US entrance in WWII. During that war, Conant was the administrative director of...
133) The living daylights
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 2 hrs., 11 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As Bond works to rescue an abducted Russian officer who had defected to the West, he must unravel a complex weapons scheme.
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
349 pages
Description
La verdadera historia de los espías rusos en la que se inspira The Americans, la serie de culto de Amazon Prime Video. Una ficción trepidante que cuenta las propias experiencias de vida de Elena. La historia se extiende desde los primeros días del reclutamiento y entrenamiento del personaje principal como espía hasta el fatídico día de su arresto. La novela ofrece la descripción más realista y honesta de la vida y obra de los agentes de la...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Description
"While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment,...
137) The abyss
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (377 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks, the Navy commandeers the crew of a civilian deep sea oil rig to help in the rescue operation. This perilous mission becomes a wondrous odyssey into the unknown as forces from the ocean's deepest region begin to make contact with the divers.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"With vivid storytelling and access to insider accounts, Weiner sets out to trace the roots of Russian-American political warfare--conflict waged without weapons--over the last seven decades to understand how a president landed in the White House with the help of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most significant threats to democracy in the United States and...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxi, 582 pages(large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Description
"In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
vii, 355 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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Description
This unforgettable portrait of resistance, from Laos to California, follows one woman, with wounds inflicted by war and family alike, as she builds a new existence for her and her children by growing Hmong rice, just as her ancestors did, and selling it to those who hunger for the Laos of their memories.
An unforgettable portrait of resistance, from Laos to California. Hamilton shares the story of Ia Moua. Born into the Hmong minority, she is promised...
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