Cold War 1945-1991: A Global Power Struggle
Explore the pivotal events of the Cold War era with the Cold War 1945-1991 series. This series examines the geopolitical, military, and social aspects of this tense period. Enhance your understanding with related reads from our History of Terror series.
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North Vietnam's 1972 Easter Offensive
Hanoi's Gamble
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9781526757128
Pub Date: 2020-05-13
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
136 Pages
By the end of 1971, in what Hanoi called the American War and at the height of the Cold War, the fighting had dragged on for eight years with neither side gaining a decisive advantage on the battlefield and talks in Paris to the end the war were going nowhere.
Korean War - Chinese Invasion
People's Liberation Army Crosses the Yalu, October 1950–March 1951
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9781526778093
Pub Date: 2020-05-13
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
128 Pages
In his first four volumes on the Korean War, the author traces the war’s progress from the North Korean invasion of June 1950, the desperate American defence of the Pusan Perimeter, General Douglas MacArthur’s daring and highly successful amphibious offensive at Inch’ŏn, and his subsequent advance across the 38th Parallel to the Yalu River on ...
Korean War - Imjin River
Fall of the Glosters to the Armistice, April 1951–July 1953
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9781526778130
Pub Date: 2020-05-27
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
128 Pages
As of October 1950, a quarter of a million Communist Chinese troops, in twenty-seven divisions, had poured across the Yalu River into North Korea, with the singular objective of forcing General Douglas MacArthur’s United Nations troops back across the 38th Parallel and into the Sea of Japan.
Korean War: Allied Surge
Pyongyang Falls, UN Sweep to the Yalu, October 1950
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781526756923
Pub Date: 2019-11-13
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
136 Pages
Cold War crescendo: in the author’s first three volumes in a series on battles of the Korean War, North Korean forces cross the 38th Parallel, rolling back US and South Korean forces into a small corner of the Korean peninsula.
Suez Crisis 1956
End of Empire and the Reshaping of the Middle East
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781526757081
Pub Date: 2019-12-12
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
136 Pages
The combined air, sea and land battle witnessed the first helicopter-borne deployment of assault troops and the last large-scale parachute drop into a conflict zone by British forces. French and British soldiers fought together against the Soviet-equipped Egyptian military in a short campaign that cost the lives of thousands of soldiers, along with
The Battle for Laos
Vietnam's Proxy War, 1955–1975
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9781526757043
Pub Date: 2019-10-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
136 Pages
By 1959 the newly independent Kingdom of Laos was being transformed into a Cold War battleground for global superpower competition, having been born out of the chaos following the French military defeat and withdrawal from Indochina in 1954.
Prague Spring
Warsaw Pact Invasion, 1968
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9781526757005
Pub Date: 2019-08-13
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
136 Pages
Cold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the opportunity to loosen the Soviet stranglehold on the country. As the Prague winter slowly eases into a Prague spring, it really does seem as if Dubcek has judged it right.
Inchon Landing
MacArthur's Korean War Masterstroke, September 1950
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781526756961
Pub Date: 2019-06-27
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
136 Pages
In the first two volumes in the author’s series on battles of the Korean War, North Korean ground forces, armor and artillery cross the 38th Parallel into South Korea, inflicting successive ignominious defeats on the ill-prepared US-led UN troops, pushing them ever southward into a tiny defensive enclave—the Pusan Perimeter—on the tip of the Korean
North Vietnam's 1972 Easter Offensive
Hanoi's Gamble
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9781526757128
Pub Date: 2020-05-13
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
136 Pages
Korean War - Chinese Invasion
People's Liberation Army Crosses the Yalu, October 1950–March 1951
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9781526778093
Pub Date: 2020-05-13
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
128 Pages
Korean War - Imjin River
Fall of the Glosters to the Armistice, April 1951–July 1953
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9781526778130
Pub Date: 2020-05-27
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
128 Pages
Korean War: Allied Surge
Pyongyang Falls, UN Sweep to the Yalu, October 1950
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781526756923
Pub Date: 2019-11-13
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
136 Pages
Suez Crisis 1956
End of Empire and the Reshaping of the Middle East
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781526757081
Pub Date: 2019-12-12
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
136 Pages
The Battle for Laos
Vietnam's Proxy War, 1955–1975
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9781526757043
Pub Date: 2019-10-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
136 Pages
Prague Spring
Warsaw Pact Invasion, 1968
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9781526757005
Pub Date: 2019-08-13
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
136 Pages
Inchon Landing
MacArthur's Korean War Masterstroke, September 1950
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781526756961
Pub Date: 2019-06-27
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
136 Pages