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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"An account of the Cold War spies whose survival depended on carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help avert global nuclear war and, in so doing, changed the global landscape in ways that are still felt today"--
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.
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001, c1964
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A satire in which the President and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.
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"Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline, but remain opaque to the rest of the world - and still very dangerous. In this ever-shifting landscape, a senior KGB officer - code name GAMBIT - has approached the CIA Moscow Station chief with top secret military weapons intelligence and asked to be exfiltrated. GAMBIT demands that his handler be a former CIA officer, Alex Garin, a former KGB officer who...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
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Description
"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuseto be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 575 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Description
"During the Cold War, superpowers amassed nuclear arsenals containing the explosive power of one million Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union secretly plotted to create the 'Dead Hand,' a system designed to launch an automatic retaliatory nuclear strike on the United States, and developed a fearsome biological warfare machine. President Ronald Reagan, hoping to awe the Soviets into submission, pushed hard for the creation of space-based missile defenses....
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President and his aides struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
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Description
"On May 31, 1988, Reagan stood on Russian soil and addressed a packed audience at Moscow State University, delivering a remarkableyet now largely forgottenspeech that capped his first visit to the Soviet capital. This fourth in a series of summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, was a dramatic coda to their tireless efforts to reduce the nuclear threat. More than that, Reagan viewed it as "a grand historical moment":...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
317 pages : 8 unnumbered pages of black & white plates : portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
In 1946, codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States, whose goal was to infiltrate American intelligence and steal the nations military and atomic secrets. Over the course of the next decade, he and FBI supervisor Bob Lamphere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet agents and protect the atomic bomb. Opposites in nearly every...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
352 pages
Description
"In The Zhivago Affair, Peter Finn and Petra Couvée bring us intimately close to this charming, passionate, and complex artist. First to obtain CIA files providing concrete proof of the agency's involvement, the authors give us a literary thriller that takes us back to a fascinating period of the Cold War--to a time when literature had the power to stir the world."--www.Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxv, 579 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Based on a new documents and interviews, this work is a look at the Berlin Crisis of 1961, with powerful applications for the present. In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called it "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping the Cold War, and more perilous. For the first time in history, American and...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 593 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"An in-depth and masterful account of how Ronald Reagan's foreign policy "team of rivals" ended the Cold War and laid the foundation for the twenty-first century. Today, the ending of the Cold War seems a foregone conclusion. But in the early 1980s, U.S.intelligence predicted the Soviet Union would last another century. Ronald Reagan entered the White House with no certainty of what would happen next, only an overriding faith in American democracy...
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,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxii, 489 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Description
On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after...
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