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"For centuries people dreamed of navigating under the sea, but it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that inventors succeeded in developing practical submarines. With the coming of World War I, nations saw something entirely new in war: the deadly effectiveness of underwater craft, with German U-boats threatening to starve Britain and bringing the United States into the war, thus proving underwater battles more important than the...

"On June 14, 1951--before the U.S. Senate--Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin reviewed the public career of General George G. Marshall. It was a long and amply documented speech in which no holds were barred. This book is a condensed version of that speech --with the asides cut out--and with new material added, including the treatment accorded the speech by the press. 'My discussion of General Marshall's career,' writes the Senator, 'arose naturally...

The Cold War was the longest conflict in American history, and the defining event of the second half of the twentieth century. Since its recent and abrupt cessation, we have only begun to measure the effects of the Cold War on American, Soviet, post-Soviet, and international military strategy, economics, domestic policy, and popular culture. This reference contains an extensive narrative overview of key events and issues, and also features a concise...

This volume contains writings of or about war from the following authors : Nina Macdonald, Rebecca West, Vera Brittain, Edith Wharton, Mary Borden, Ellen La Motte, Colette, Helen Zenna Smith, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Amy Lowell, Willa Cather, Mary Lee, Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, Gertrude Stein, Kathe Kollwitz, Charlotte Mew, Katherine Mansfield, Louise Bogan, Toni Morrison, Jane Addams, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Martha Gellhorn,...

"Cold War Poetry considers the fifties poem as part of a dual cultural project: as proof of the competency of the newly professionalized poet and as a user-friendly way of initiating a newly educated, upwardly mobile postwar audience into high culture. Brunner revisits Richard Wilbur, Randall Jarrell, and other acknowledged leaders of the period as well as neglected writers such as Rosalie Moore, V.R. Lang, Katherine Hoskins, Melvin B. Tolson, and...

The decade from 1981 through 1991 saw the remarkable transition from a renewed U.S. confrontation with the Soviet Union to the end of communist rule and the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself. This turning point is now history, history that is the foundation for what has been occurring between the United States and Russia and for what will evolve. In this book, one of America's foremost specialists on Soviet affairs provides a major contribution...

Hyland examines the tense 50-year power struggle between the communist world and the West, covering Yalta and Potsdam, Korea and Vietnam, the missile crisis in Cuba and the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the Strategic Arms Limitation treaties. He traces the cold war through its various stages of confrontation, containment, and conciliation, and explains why in the mid-1980s, the conflict began to diminish and the world began to change. ISBN 0-8129-1871-1:...