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Wen-Chin Chang
Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang …

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Susan Polgar
Rebel Queen

A real life Queen's Gambit, this captivating memoir tells the story of one of the most renowned women in chess history, Susan Polgar, taking on a sexist establishment and rewriting the rules of what women…

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Jonna Mendez
In True Face

In this "extraordinarily brave and entertaining book" (Sonia Purnell, New York Times --bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance ), the bestselling coauthor of Argotells her riveting, coura…

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Susan Polgar
Rebel Queen

A real life Queen's Gambit, this captivating memoir tells the story of one of the most renowned women in chess history, Susan Polgar, taking on a sexist establishment and rewriting the rules of what women…

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Vladislav Zubok
The World of the Cold War

Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union?In th…

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Martin Stupich
Ore and Empire

Photography and the history of extraction combine as Marty Stupich's extraordinary images map the 600 year oppression of the lands and people from the Mexican Conquest to the Guggenheims, from deep inside…

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Howard Bryant
Kings and Pawns

"I loved this book.... I looked forward to [it] more than any other in a long time, and Howard Bryant exceeded my great expectations. Kings and Pawns is brilliantly conceived and powerfully written.&…

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Mikhail Zygar,
Die Zukunft, die nie kam

Nach einem Jahrzehnt intensiver Recherchen legt Mikhail Zygar eine ebenso zeitgemäße wie fesselnde neue Deutung der russischen Geschichte vor: ein Panorama aus persönlichen Erinnerungen, Archivrecherchen …

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Mandy Kirkby
Love Letters of the Great War

'Heartbreaking letters from the hell of the trenches . . . a moving collection' - Daily MailFrom the private papers of a young Winston Churchill to the tender notes of an unknown Tommy in the trenches, Lo…

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A Handbook on Post-1956 Hungarian Refugee Relief

This volume focuses on the 1956 Hungarian refugee crisis, when 200,000 Hungarians fled to Western Europe and beyond after the Soviet invasion. Although the number of refugees was not outstanding by global…

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Crossing Into Canada

These powerful first-hand accounts of two generations of US war resisters track their search for safe haven in Canada and the assistance of the activists who supported them. During the war in Vietnam, Can…

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Ulrik Skotte
The Umbrella Murder

In 1978 the Bulgarian author and dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated by a poisoned umbrella on Waterloo Bridge in London. His murder is the most iconic killing in almost five decades of the Cold War,…

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Longfei Xing
Crossing the Iron Curtain

Rethinking the Cold War

During the Cold War, an invisible "iron curtain" divided the Western world from Maoist China. What motives lay behind the façade of educational exchange? This book explores the experiences of We…

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Vladislav Zubok
The First Cold War

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'Monumental and highly readable... by smartly knitting together the past with the present, Zubok brings a prescient and fresh perspective' Financial TimesA sweeping, original…

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Matthew Longo
The Picnic

A gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the summer of 1989 - and how it led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.'Beautifully written . . . The Picnic reads like…

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Ian Fleming
The Diamond Smugglers

THE TRUE STORY OF AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME RING AND ITS DOWNFALLIn 1957, as the Cold War raged, Ian Fleming took a respite from writing James Bond to craft a work of nonfiction every bit as tense as a Bond …

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Hugh Wilford
The CIA

How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.

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Satsuki Ina
The Poet and the Silk Girl

Now in paperback: A compelling and prismatic love story of one family's defiance in the face of injustice---and how their story echoes across generations. "Beautifully woven together by Satsuki Ina's…

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Jamie Gordon,
Flashpoint

A set of platoon level wargames rules for fighting in a Cold War Gone Hot scenario.East vs West, Capitalist vs Communist. Fight as either the Warsaw Pact or NATO in Flashpoint, a set of platoon level warg…

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