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(Subject: Post World War II - Cold War, Eastern Bloc) Italian text. Essays and accounts of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia on 21 August 1968 and the days and events which led up to it. Extensively illustrated with contemporary photographs. (Published: 1968) (Publisher: Rizzoli Editore S.p.A.) (Pagination: 127pp illustrations) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Post World War II - Cold War, Eastern Bloc) While the world was lauding the stability and economic growth that Vladimir Putin's ex-KGB regime brought to Russia, Edward Lucas was ringing alarm bells. First published in 2008 and since revised, The New Cold War remains the most insightful and informative account of Russia today. It depicts the regime's crushing of independent institutions and silencing of critics, taking Russia far away from the European mainstream. It highlights the Kremlin's use of the energy weapon in Europe, the bullying of countries in the former Soviet empire, such as Estonia, Georgia and Ukraine, and how Russian money weakens the West's will to resist. Now updated with an incisive analysis of Russia's seizure of Crimea and its destabilisation of Ukraine, the book unpicks the roots of the Kremlin's ideology. (Published: 2014) (Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing) (ISBN: 9781408859285) (Pagination: 352pp, map) (Condition: New in card cover) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Post World War II - Cold War, Eastern Bloc) Magazine format. Creased covers showing signs of use. A special issue for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Inc. Research Institute. Contributors include Stephen Foye, Vladimir Socor, Bess Brown (Published: 1993) (Publisher: RFE/RL Research Inst.) (Pagination: 105pp maps, photos) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Post World War II - Cold War, Eastern Bloc) The future of Western Europe, politically, economically and spiritually, was so closely involved with the future of Germany that an understanding of the events in Germany was vital for students of the Cold War. This book was published in 1960, predating the construction of the Berlin Wall by one year. Co-authored by Richard Hiscocks and Robert Spencer. (Published: 1960) (Publisher: J M Dent & Sons) (Pagination: 195pp, 3 maps) (Condition: fair in marked d/w.) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Post World War II - Cold War, Eastern Bloc) A study of the Soviet Military equipment and capabilities at the height of the Cold War. The authors look at Soviet History and war, and then move to Nuclear Power, the soviet military, naval and air forces and the individual soviet fighting man. (Published: 1983) (Publisher: Gallery Books) (ISBN: 0831779209) (Pagination: 224pp, 244 col & b/w illustrations, 26 Diagrams, 6 Map, Table - large format) (Condition: Good. Red boards. Faded spine) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Post World War II - Cold War, Eastern Bloc) Live Testing of Soviet Nuclear Bombs, 1949-1962. On 30 October 1961, the Soviet Union conducted a live test of the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. Codenamed ‘Ivan’, and known in the West as the ‘Tsar Bomba’, the RDS-202 hydrogen bomb was detonated at the Sukhoy Nos cape of Severny Island, Novaya Zemla archipelago, in the Barents Sea. The Tsar Bomba unleashed about 58 megatons of TNT, creating a 8-kilometre/5-mile-wide fireball and then a mushroom that peaked at an altitude of 95 kilometres (59 miles). The shockwave created by the RDS-202 eradicated a village 55 kilometres (34 miles) from ground zero, caused widespread damage to nature to a radius of dozens of kilometres further away, and created a heat wave felt as far as 270 kilometres (170 miles) distant. And still, this was just one of 45 tests of nuclear weapons conducted in the USSR in October 1961 alone. (Published: 2021) (Publisher: Helion & Co.) (ISBN:… Read More