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23) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Language
English
Description
April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning and knows nothing of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world's first atomic bomb, must assume command of a nation at war on multiple continents--and confront one of the most consequential decisions in history....
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"After a decade and a half of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, US policymakers are seeking to provide aid and advice to local governments' counterinsurgency campaigns rather than directly intervening with US forces. This strategy, and US counterinsurgency doctrine in general, fail to recognize that despite a shared aim of defeating an insurgency, the US and its local partner frequently have differing priorities with respect to the conduct of counterinsurgency...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In this press-wary administration, journalist Draper has accomplished a small miracle: He has knocked on all the right doors, and thus become the first author to tell a personality-driven history of the Bush years. With access to all the key figures of this administration and perhaps 200 other players, Draper delivers an intimate portrait of a tumultuous decade and a beleaguered administration, with a special emphasis on how the very personality of...
30) Victory: the Reagan administration's secret strategy that hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
31) On China
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past forty years, Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation throughout its history, and reflects on the consequences...
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Language
English
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Description
Presidential historian Beschloss has brought us a saga about crucial times in America's history when a courageous president dramatically changed the future of the United States. Beschloss brings to life these flawed, complex men--and their wives, families, friends and foes, in an intimate, behind-the-scenes view of presidents coping with the supreme dilemmas of their lives. As he shows, none of these presidents was eager to incur ridicule, vilification...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher unknown]
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Thank You America is the real life story of Dr. Melvin Thomas who was just eight years old when Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2nd 1990. In this book Melvin Thomas talks in depth of how one morning his family woke up to find their perfect world of existence shattered by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and their hope for a good future disappearing from the horizon of life . This book records in vivid details the horrors of the Iraqi invasion, the life...
