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The Making of a Cold War Spy
The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s ...
Around 442 Cromwells were converted to Charioteers. The British issued them to Territorial Army tank units who would be ...
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Secret Cold War Gadgets
The Cold war was a time of espionage between the CIA and KGB and other organisations. Technology played a key role in an ...
First held on the island of Hokkaido in 1988, a showdown was held in Sweden in 1992 and the fun sport eventually spread via Finland to Filzmoos in Austria, where the European Championships are ...
Frozen wastelands, brutal forced labor, and millions of prisoners—inside the Soviet Gulags, survival was a daily battle!
The Trump administration’s warning that Europe must take care of security in its own backyard raises questions, including ...
In the year after Russia launched outright war on Ukraine, NATO leaders approved a set of military plans designed to repel an ...
The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to tolerate Soviet spheres of influence in central and eastern Europe. Many ...
Anderson's time-travel mystery, 'The Expert of Subtle Revisions,' explores the way history is affected by how it is told and ...
Rising along the line where eastern and western Europe divide, a forested mountain range is home to shepherds, villages and ...