cold war

Uses contemporary documents to explore the development of the Cold War struggle, the consequences in the 1950s and 1960s, and the lasting effects on American social and cultural patterns.

From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II.

Kim Philby, the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring, was the Cold War's most infamous traitor. He headed up the section that was supposed to catch Russian spies within MI6. As a Soviet spy at the heart of British intelligence, he betrayed hundreds of British and U.S. agents to the Russians and compromised numerous covert operations inside the Soviet Union. Philby's lifelong treachery was a huge shock to his close friend and co-worker at MI6, Tim Milne, and after Milne retired, he wrote a highly revealing description of Philby's time at MI6. But publication of Milne's memoirs was banned at the time, due to sensitivity. Milne died in 2010 and his family remained determined to publish his memoirs, hence this book.

The story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s. Anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba through the 1980s and 1990s, bombing hotels and shooting up Cuban beaches with machine guns. The Cuban government struck back with the Wasp Network--a dozen men and two women--sent to infiltrate those organizations. The Last Soldiers of the Cold War tells the story of those unlikely Cuban spies and their eventual unmasking and prosecution by U.S. authorities. Five of the Cubans received long or life prison terms on charges of espionage and murder.

Thousands of Nazis, from concentration camp guards and officers in the Third Reich, came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. Many gained entry on their own, as refugees, but thousands had help from the U.S. government. The CIA, the FBI and others all put Hitler's minions to work as spies, intelligence assets, and engineers, whitewashing their histories. Only years later did government prosecutors begin trying to identify them, relying on a trove of newly discovered documents.

Looks at nearly five decades of global history, using both new footage, interviews, and archival footage from all over the world to include historically important, and often emotionally stunning, images, many never before seen by an international audience.

Reenactments, dramatic readings, and interviews with historians examine significant events of the Cold War period between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the post-World War II era, with coverage of the Berlin crisis, Fidel Castro and Cuba, and the collapse of the U.S.S.R.

Combines newsreel footage, educational films and government training films to portray the Cold War paranoia of the nineteen-fifties.

Provides an understanding of the causes and outbreak of the Vietnam war and how it impacted the United States.