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  • War is not Cool at all, Fools!

    As I Remember It.

    by Hiroko Falkenstein ...
    WHEN THE JAPANESE navy attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, it triggered a massive U.S. retaliation and a succession of incendiary bombardments. War is not Cool at all, Fools!, is a collection of poetry called Tanka, written by the author Hiroko Falkenstein. Each poem is beautifully written, yet profound, and can be read in a matter of seconds. However, as the author explains, the meaning of each poem ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 From the First Atom Spy to 7/7 1945-2009

    by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas ...
    PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Security Service.The authors look in detail at MI5s role in the post-Cold War world; in particular, they consider its changing role as it took on the main responsibility in countering terrorist threats to ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Taking of K-129

    How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History

    by Josh Dean ...
    **An incredible true tale of espionage and engineering set at the height of the Cold War—a mix between The Hunt for Red October and Argo—about how the CIA, the U.S. Navy, and America’s most eccentric mogul spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal the nuclear-armed Soviet submarine K-129 after it had sunk to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean; all while the Russians were watching.In the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 from Agent Zig Zag to the D-Day Deception 1939-45

    by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas ...
    PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Security Service in its battle against German espionage. During the Second World War, the Security Service, through brilliant officers such as Guy Liddell, Dick White and the fearsome spy-breaker, Tin-eye ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Safe: How to stay safe in a dangerous world

    Survival techniques for everyday life from an SAS hero

    by Chris Ryan ...
    In today's increasingly hostile climate people are anxious about how to keep themselves safe.Chris Ryan served in the SAS for seven years and in several war zones throughout the world. During this time he was the Regiment's top striker and in 1991 during the infamous Bravo Two Zero mission behind Iraqi lines he was the only member of the team to evade capture and fight his way to safety, for which ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Eric G. Swedin ...
    In 1961 at the Bay of Pigs, CIA-trained and -organized Cuban exiles aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro were soundly defeated. Most were taken prisoner by Cuban armed forces. Fearing another U.S. invasion of its new ally, the Soviet Union sneaked into Cuba strategic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads and Soviet troops armed with tactical nuclear weapons. However, a U-2 spy plane flight would soon ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • The Last Raid: How World War II Ended, August 1945

    by Daniel Ford ...
    While the Japanese war cabinet argued about whether to surrender, and on what terms, the U.S. Army Strategic Air Force on Guam and Tinian geared up for a thousand-plane raid upon the Empire. It would be the last air raid of the Second World War. This little book, which first appeared in Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine on the 50th anniversary of the war's end, tells the story of those momentous ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 From M to Miss X 1909-39

    by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas ...
    PO Box 500, London W2 the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous secret services hid: MI5. Drawing on previously secret sources, this book lifts the lid on Britains Security Service in its battle against German and Soviet espionage. It tells the sensational stories of the officers and agents and the enemies they confronted, from MI5s creation in 1909 under the ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Crime of Chernobyl: The Nuclear Goulag

    by Wladimir Tchertkoff ...
    Hundreds of books, long and short, have been written about the Chernobyl tragedy. Few people are left indifferent once they understand a little about the biggest technological catastrophe in history. Wladimir Tchertkoff’s book “The Crime of Chernobyl - the Nuclear Gulag” occupies a central place in this library aboutChernobyl.Many journalists, like Wladimir Tchertkoff, a documentary film maker for ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More on War

    by Martin van Creveld ...
    'War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy. The survival of every country, government, and individual is ultimately dependent on war - or the ability to wage it in self-defence. That is why, though it may come but once in a hundred years, it must be prepared for every day. When it is too late ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • How We Stopped Loving the Bomb

    An insider's account of the world on the brink of banning nuclear arms

    by Douglas Roche ...
    Nobody loves nuclear weapons--except their powerfully placed defenders in government, their supporters in the military, and terrorists. When President Barack Obama brought his vision of a nuclear weapons-free world to the White House, he re-energized the peace movement. Today the historical momentum to rid the world of nuclear weapons is once again gathering speed.Former Canadian Ambassador for ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Awaiting Armageddon

    How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Alice L. George ...
    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. The immediate threat of destruction entered America’s classrooms and its living rooms. Awaiting Armageddon provides the first in-depth look at this crisis as it ... Read more

    $28.49 USD