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Klaxon!
Strategic Air Command Alert During the Cold War
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781914377112
Pub Date: 2024-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Helion and Company
88 Pages
From 1957 until 1991, the Strategic Air Command of the US Air Force (SAC) fought a war of deterrence. Every single day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, thousands of men, women, and hundreds of aircraft were kept on alert, armed with nuclear weapons, ready to attack pre-determined targets on short notice.
Cold War Boys Overseas
True Tales by Those Who Served with the Royal Air Force Abroad
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781911714057
Pub Date: 2024-07-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Grub Street Publishing
224 Pages
Until the end of the Cold War in 1990, the RAF had several major bases worldwide – largely in those areas where the service had been based during the inter-war years. In Cold War Boys Overseas contributors...
We Were Never There
Volume 3 - Clandestine CIA Flight Operations beyond the Iron Curtain, 1947-1960
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781804510247
Pub Date: 2024-06-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Helion and Company
88 Pages
While most famous for its U-2 penetration flights over the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated a large number of ‘other’ types of intelligence-gathering aircraft, or specially modified aircraft for operations beyond the Iron Curtain from the mid-1940s.
Central America in the Crosshairs of War
On the Road from Vietnam to Iraq
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781960521019
Pub Date: 2024-06-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: George F Thompson Publishing
176 Pages
During the 1980s, the Reagan Administration financed and directed wars against popular movements in El Salvador and Nicaragua that left more than 300,000 dead and countless more wounded. Vowing to block...
Hawker's Secret Cold War Airfield
Dunsfold: Home of the Hunter and Harrier
Price: $38.95
ISBN: 9781526798008
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Air World
328 Pages
In 1948, Hawker Aircraft, faced with new jet projects that could not use their existing airfield at Langley, began the process of searching for alternative accommodation for their flight-testing requirements.
The U-2 Over the Soviet Union
America’s Famous Cold War Spy Plane from a Soviet Perspective
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781399067393
Pub Date: 2024-05-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Air World
256 Pages
On 1 May 1960, a traditional military parade was held in Moscow. What stood it out from the previous ones, however, was the number of missiles, and in particular the ground-to-air anti-aircraft variants,...
Vietnam and the Cold War 1945-1954
French Imperial Decline and Defeat at Dien Bien Phu
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781526789297
Pub Date: 2024-05-16
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
448 Pages
A forensic study of Vietnam's war, imperial history and international relations in the years following the Second World War.A forensic study of war, imperial history and international relations, following...
NATO and Warsaw Pact Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the Cold War
Price: $46.95
ISBN: 9781399019712
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
256 Pages
While tanks were the most recognized armored vehicles during the Cold War, NATO and Warsaw Pact (WP) armies fielded a wide array of armored fighting vehicles (AFVs). These included armored cars, armored...
Klaxon!
Strategic Air Command Alert During the Cold War
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781914377112
Pub Date: 2024-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Helion and Company
88 Pages
Cold War Boys Overseas
True Tales by Those Who Served with the Royal Air Force Abroad
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781911714057
Pub Date: 2024-07-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Grub Street Publishing
224 Pages
We Were Never There
Volume 3 - Clandestine CIA Flight Operations beyond the Iron Curtain, 1947-1960
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781804510247
Pub Date: 2024-06-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Helion and Company
88 Pages
Central America in the Crosshairs of War
On the Road from Vietnam to Iraq
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781960521019
Pub Date: 2024-06-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: George F Thompson Publishing
176 Pages
Hawker's Secret Cold War Airfield
Dunsfold: Home of the Hunter and Harrier
Price: $38.95
ISBN: 9781526798008
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Air World
328 Pages
The U-2 Over the Soviet Union
America’s Famous Cold War Spy Plane from a Soviet Perspective
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781399067393
Pub Date: 2024-05-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Air World
256 Pages
Vietnam and the Cold War 1945-1954
French Imperial Decline and Defeat at Dien Bien Phu
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781526789297
Pub Date: 2024-05-16
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
448 Pages
NATO and Warsaw Pact Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the Cold War
Price: $46.95
ISBN: 9781399019712
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
256 Pages