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An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
83) The double game
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355 pages ; 25 cm
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A thrillingly inventive novel about spies and their secrets, fathers and sons, lovers and fate, and duplicity and loyalty -- a maze of intrigue built from the espionage classics of the Cold War. A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster reveals to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he'd once considered spying for the enemy. More than two decades later, Cage, by then a lonely, disillusioned PR man, receives...
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xviii, 459 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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"A close-up, action-filled narrative about the crucial role the U.S. Navy played in the early years of the Cold War, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fleet at Flood Tide This landmark account of the U.S. Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Hold the Sea, combines narrative history with scenes of stirring adventure on--and under--the high seas. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the victorious Navy sends its sailors home and decommissions...
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xxii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
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"In Saving Freedom, Joe Scarborough recounts the historic forces that moved Truman toward his country's long twilight struggle against Soviet communism, and how this untested president acted decisively to build a lasting coalition that would influence America's foreign policy for generations to come. On March 12, 1947, Truman delivered an address before a joint session of Congress announcing a policy of containment that would soon become known as...
87) Hammer to fall
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380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"It's London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. Alas, his postings are usually rather unglamorous, but thankfully he has a knack for doing well for himself even in unpromising situations. In divided Berlin, he smuggled coffee into the East, a rather profitable racket until he had to transport something else-a spy. After an aborted mission on Berlin's famous "Bridge of Spies,"...
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236 pages ; 22 cm
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"A thought provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power. When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. Our side had won, a verdict that was both decisive and irreversible. For the world's 'indispensable nation, ' its 'sole superpower,...
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xiv, 857 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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"A history of the thinkers, writers, and artists who shaped intellectual culture in Cold War Europe and America"--
Menand analyzes the economic, demographic, and technological forces that drove social and cultural change in US during the twenty years following the end of the Second World War. Introducing us to the personalities at the center of this transformation -- artists and thinkers both in the US and abroad -- he shows how they exerted a powerful...
94) Red Winter
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Jack Ryan novel volume 22
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In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the truth about a potential Soviet defector in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series.
1985
A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets.
In East Berlin,...
1985
A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets.
In East Berlin,...
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xxv, 529 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
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Every day in Washington, DC, the blue-and-gold 1st Helicopter Squadron, codenamed "MUSSEL," flies over the Potomac River. As obvious as the Presidential motorcade, most people assume the squadron is a travel perk for VIPs. They're only half right: while the helicopters do provide transport, the unit exists to evacuate high-ranking officials in the event of a terrorist or nuclear attack on the capital. In the event of an attack, select officials would...
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"'La forma del agua' está ambientada en la ciudad de Baltimore en plena Guerra Fría, en el centro de investigación aeroespacial Occam, al que hace poco ha llegado un ser tan extraordinario como potencialmente valioso: un hombre anfibio capturado en el Amazonas. Lo que sigue es una emotiva historia de amor entre este ser y una de las mujeres de la limpieza en Occam, quien es muda y se comunica con la criatura por medio del lenguaje de signos"--Amazon.com.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Chronicles the history of the Berlin Wall, from its construction in 1961 to the opening in 1989. Examines the lives of ordinary citizens caught in the politics of the Cold War, the extraordinary efforts of East Berliners to cross to the West, and the birth of the freedom movement in East Germany's Protestant Church.
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xi, 593 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"An in-depth and masterful account of how Ronald Reagan's foreign policy 'team of rivals' ended the Cold War and laid the foundation for the twenty-first century. Today, the ending of the Cold War seems a foregone conclusion. But in the early 1980s, U.S. intelligence predicted the Soviet Union would last another century. Ronald Reagan entered the White House with no certainty of what would happen next, only an overriding faith in American democracy...
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