Cold War 1945-1991 – serie
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Iran-Iraq War
The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988
Häftad, 2018
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The bloody eight-year Iran-Iraq war is now almost forgotten, overshadowed by the subsequent Gulf War and Iraq War. However, it is best remembered for the unique so-called 'Tanker War' which threatened to strangle the world's oil supplies. At the time Tucker-Jones as a defence analyst wrote …
Battle for Laos
Vietnam's Proxy War, 1955-1975
Häftad, 2019
171 kr
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By 1959 the newly independent Kingdom of Laos was being transformed into a Cold War battleground for global superpower competition, having been born out of the chaos following the French military defeat and withdrawal from Indochina in 1954. The country was soon engulfed in a rapidly evolving civil …
Suez Crisis 1956
End of Empire and the Reshaping of the Middle East
Häftad, 2019
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In 1956 Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, ending nearly a century of British and French control over the crucial waterway. Ignoring U.S. diplomatic efforts and fears of a looming Cold War conflict, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden misled Parliament and the press …
Bay of Pigs
CIA's Cuban Disaster, April 1961
Häftad, 2018
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Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster to befall the USA since the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House. Badly planned, badly organized, the affair was littered with …
Biafra Genocide
Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967-1970
Av Al J. Venter
Häftad, 2018
157 kr
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One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people-mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children-died in one of Africa's first post-independence wars, but that until it happened the world thought Nigeria was immune from the wasting disease of tribalism. It …
Prague Spring
Warsaw Pact Invasion, 1968
Häftad, 2019
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Cold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the opportunity to loosen the Soviet stranglehold on the country. As the Prague winter slowly eases into a Prague spring, it really does seem as if Dubcek has judged it …
Hungarian Uprising
Budapest's Cataclysmic Twelve Days, 1956
Häftad, 2018
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When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but …
British Army of the Rhine
The BAOR, 1945-1993
Häftad, 2018
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The nervous geopolitical tension between East and West, the Cold War, emerged before the end of the Second World War and lasted until 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The British Army of the Rhine was born in 1945 out of the British Liberation Army at the close of the war as the military …
