Автор: Edward M. Geist Название: Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945–1991 ISBN: 1469645254 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469645254 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike? In Armageddon Insurance, the first historical account of Soviet civil defense and a pioneering reappraisal of its American counterpart, Edward M. Geist compares how the two superpowers tried, and mostly failed, to reinforce their societies to withstand the ultimate catastrophe.Drawing on previously unexamined documents from archives in America, Russia, and Ukraine, Geist places these civil defense programs in their political and cultural contexts, demonstrating how each country's efforts reflected its cultural preoccupations and blind spots, and revealing how American and Soviet civil defense related to profound issues of nuclear strategy and national values. This work challenges prevailing historical assumptions and unearths the ways Moscow and Washington developed nuclear weapons policies based not on rational strategic or technical considerations, but in power struggles between different institutions pursuing their own narrow self-interests.
Автор: Alice L. George Название: Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis ISBN: 1469608839 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469608839 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 49890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: For thirteen days in October 1962, America stood at the brink of nuclear war. Nikita Khrushchev`s decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba and John F. Kennedy`s defiant response introduced the possibility of unprecedented cataclysm. Awaiting Armageddon provides the first in-depth look at this crisis as it roiled outside of government offices.
Автор: Wynne Nick, Knetsch Joe Название: Edge of Armageddon: Florida and the Cuban Missile Crisis ISBN: 1478702478 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478702474 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 17610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Campbell Kevin a. Название: Journey to Armageddon: The Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg, Volume Iii ISBN: 1796035343 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781796035346 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 22060.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Once again, the soldiers, officers, and commanders tell the story in this third volume of Kevin Campbell's comprehensive work on the Gettysburg Campaign, Journey to Armageddon. The hardships, comradery, short rations, and the dance with the enemy's bullets and shells are all here. Blistering sun, drenching rains, chocking dust, sticky mud, played out horses and men, and the high-level, often inharmoniousness communications between army commanders and their governments are presented in these pages. Fortunately, not all is despair and doom. Included are the sometimes-humorous interactions with the civilians met along their journey and the acrimony that frequently filled encounters between hungry soldiers and the administrators of the villages and towns they passed through. The tales told by these hardy men about the events of their existence are significant elements within the story of the Gettysburg Campaign, which author Kevin Campbell tells in a clear and concise prose. Most historians who write of the great crusade gloss over these events in favor of the more prominent proceedings in and around Gettysburg. These often-ignored events and much more are incorporated into his complete treatment of the Union and Confederate armies on their journey to Armageddon.
Автор: Valsania Название: The Limits Of Optimism ISBN: 0813934451 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813934457 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 27720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: <em>The Limits of Optimism</em> works to dispel persistent notions about Jefferson’s allegedly paradoxical and sphinx-like quality. Maurizio Valsania shows that Jefferson’s multifaceted character and personality are to a large extent the logical outcome of an anti-metaphysical, enlightened and humility-oriented approach to reality. That Jefferson’s mind and priorities changed over time and in response to changing circumstances indicates neither incoherence, hypocrisy nor pathology.<br><br>Valsania’s reading of Jefferson, the Enlightenment and negativity helps to make sense of the many paradoxes typically associated with that eighteenth-century thinker. At the same time, it provides a corrective to the common though erroneous equation of Enlightenment thinking with rationalism and shallow optimism.
Автор: Whigham, Thomas L. Название: Road to armageddon ISBN: 1552388093 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781552388099 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 41760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In 1864 Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano Lopez seized the Brazilian steamer, the Marques de Olinda, initiating what became the most significant war ever fought in South America. By 1866 Lopez's offensive had ended, replaced by a brutal and protracted Allied siege of Paraguay. Whigham's study takes the story of this epic conflict from this point, describing not only key personalities and various military engagements but also explaining how the war shaped society, how men and women mobilized only to suffer on an unimaginable scale. He shows how thousands of Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan soldiers were killed by 1870 and many more left wounded or broken. On their side, the Paraguayans saw their population fall to less than half its pre-war figure, and the country's economy more or less ceased to function. Yet, for all the devastation it unleashed, the Triple Alliance War also acted as a major catalyst, permanently changing political parameters on the continent and etching the struggle into popular memory in an unforgettable way. The Road to Armageddon is the definitive work on the Triple Alliance War of 1864-1866. There is no other work in English that covers this war in such detail and with such a wide use of sources. Unlike the other works published on the Triple Alliance conflict, which are based almost exclusively on secondary works, The Road to Armageddon is based on a broad consideration of newspaper sources and primary materials from a score of archives and libraries in Brazil, Paraguay, Great Britain, Argentina, Uruguay, Italy, and the United States. In addition to focusing on high politics and the conduct of the war, the study also attempts to examine the conflict from the bottom up, with testimony drawn from poor men and women who witnessed the worst aspects of the war. The Road to Armageddon is not the only English-language work on the war, but it is distinctly the most complete. The images, which are relatively unknown in North America, are particularly fine as are the maps.
Автор: Trevor Albertson Название: Winning Armageddon: Curtis LeMay and Strategic Air Command 1948–1957 ISBN: 1682474224 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682474228 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 41580.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Provides definition to an all-too-long neglected figure of the Cold War, General Curtis E. LeMay, and tells the story of his advocacy for nuclear first strikes while leading Strategic Air Command - the Cold War Air Force`s nuclear organisation. This was despite a publicly proclaimed policy of deterrence.
Название: 140 Days to Hiroshima: Inside the Final War Room Clashes and the Countdown to Armageddon ISBN: 1635765811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781635765816 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 25740.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The heart-pounding war-room drama within the military cabinets of the United States and Japan leading to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima--the strategy sessions, fierce debates, suicidal arrogance, looming assassination, abandoned plans, and sheer desperation that resulted in Armageddon on August 6, 1945 Historian David Dean Barrett puts readers inside the halls of power in Washington and Tokyo during the desperate final months of World War II. America's strategic bombing campaign systematically incinerated Japan's cities while the leaders of the Pacific's two military giants waged a war of strategy, cultural differences, and diplomatic intransigence. The military brain trust of the United States called for "unconditional surrender." Japan's senior leaders responded with a plan of all-out military and civilian resistance termed Ketsu-Go, or "The Decisive Battle." What Emperor Hirohito and his Supreme Council at the Direction of War seemed unable to grasp was the Americans' development of a catastrophic ace-in-the-hole. As US leaders weighed a two-phase invasion of the Japanese mainland that would have been twice as large as D-Day and astronomical in casualty count, a nuclear clock was ticking--America was arming itself with the ultimate weapon. Within the war-room debates, two men--one Japanese, Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo; and one American, President Harry S. Truman--assumed leading roles. Togo risked assassination in his struggle to convince his dysfunctional government, dominated by militarists and determined to fight the decisive battle on Japanese soil, to save his country from annihilation. In Washington, an untested President Truman inherited the mandate of unconditional surrender, the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War, the plans for the invasion of the Japanese Homeland, and the development of the most terrible weapon the world has ever seen. Even when Japan's "Big Six" heard from the US that failing to surrender under America's terms would result in "a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth," why did they not lay down their arms? The answer lies in 140 Days to Hiroshima and the book's nearly day-by-day account of the struggle to terminate a conflict when the positions of enemy leaders from different cultures seemed intractable.
Автор: Campbell Kevin a. Название: Journey to Armageddon: The Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg, Volume Iii ISBN: 1796035351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781796035353 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 32180.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Once again, the soldiers, officers, and commanders tell the story in this third volume of Kevin Campbell's comprehensive work on the Gettysburg Campaign, Journey to Armageddon. The hardships, comradery, short rations, and the dance with the enemy's bullets and shells are all here. Blistering sun, drenching rains, chocking dust, sticky mud, played out horses and men, and the high-level, often inharmoniousness communications between army commanders and their governments are presented in these pages. Fortunately, not all is despair and doom. Included are the sometimes-humorous interactions with the civilians met along their journey and the acrimony that frequently filled encounters between hungry soldiers and the administrators of the villages and towns they passed through. The tales told by these hardy men about the events of their existence are significant elements within the story of the Gettysburg Campaign, which author Kevin Campbell tells in a clear and concise prose. Most historians who write of the great crusade gloss over these events in favor of the more prominent proceedings in and around Gettysburg. These often-ignored events and much more are incorporated into his complete treatment of the Union and Confederate armies on their journey to Armageddon.
Автор: Patricia E. Roy Название: Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride`s British Columbia ISBN: 0774823887 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774823883 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 93810.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Devout imperialist, loyal Canadian, and dedicated British Columbian, Richard McBride served as British Columbia's premier from 1903 to 1915. During this period of great economic growth, McBride brought order to the legislature, encouraged the development of natural resources by facilitating new railways, championed the province in its quarrels with Ottawa, and promoted Canada’s links with the British Empire. His vision of a modern, industrialized, and wealthy province helped shape its institutions and its place in the British world. Boundless Optimism brings McBride’s political career into focus, chronicling his many accomplishments and putting his activities into historical context without neglecting the downsides of optimism.
Автор: Edward M. Geist Название: Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945–1991 ISBN: 1469645246 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469645247 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 82770.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike? In Armageddon Insurance, the first historical account of Soviet civil defense and a pioneering reappraisal of its American counterpart, Edward M. Geist compares how the two superpowers tried, and mostly failed, to reinforce their societies to withstand the ultimate catastrophe.
Drawing on previously unexamined documents from archives in America, Russia, and Ukraine, Geist places these civil defense programs in their political and cultural contexts, demonstrating how each country's efforts reflected its cultural preoccupations and blind spots, and revealing how American and Soviet civil defense related to profound issues of nuclear strategy and national values. This work challenges prevailing historical assumptions and unearths the ways Moscow and Washington developed nuclear weapons policies based not on rational strategic or technical considerations, but in power struggles between different institutions pursuing their own narrow self-interests.
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