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Host of the Cold War Channel and a grad student, studying military history. History exists in shades of grey and yet so many seek only black or white.

The Archaeology of the Cold War
Todd A. Hanson
@ColdWarPod "The Archaeology of the Cold War" by Todd Hanson. It's a brief overview of what archaeological work has been done in the US but more about what should be done. He actually spends time talking about oral histories of participants needing to be recorded.
Paperback, 2019
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
Vladislav M. Zubok
@koreytobias01 Excellent book; both sympathetic and rightfully critical. Combine it with Vladislav Zubok's "Collapse" for a really good understanding of the end the Soviet Union
Paperback, 2022
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Baseball: An Illustrated History, Including the Tenth Inning
Geoffrey C. Ward
Ken Burns "Baseball" documentary is the reason Maggie Simpson can't talk.
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Miracle at Midway
Gordon W. Prange
@bordergroves Set me on a path? I had no idea at the time there would be a path, but it was Gordon Prange's Miracle at Midway. I was 12, maybe? https://t.co/lKYgM9Rz1z
Paperback, 2018
$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Cold War: A World History
Odd Arne Westad
@irgarner @David_Moscrop Odd Arne Westad's The Cold War is a great overall overview, Paul Thomas Chamberlain' The Cold War's Killing Fields is a fantastic narrative dispelling the idea that Cold War saw no fighting, Eric Schlosser's Command and Control is a good look at US nuclear C&C
Paperback, 2019
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
David Halberstam
@April_1970s As for a literature recommendation, David Halberstam's "The Coldest Winter" is a great look at the political backdrop leading up to the war as well as explaining MacArthur and his dismissal.
Paperback, 2008
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
2022 and we are bearing witness to a new chapter of Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands"
Paperback, 2022
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era
Yasha Yakov Klots
@RebeccaRideal @ShonaCook_TO @hoyer_kat's new book "Beyond the Wall" is an outstanding re-look at life in E. Germany; Yasha Klots "Tamizdat" is a new look at the impact of foreign publishing of Soviet Lit; @VladislavZubok1's "Collapse" is a great look at the end of the USSR https://t.co/rCZXcq3f95
Hardcover, 2023
$130.00$105.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All
Stephen D. Engle
I am looking for a copy of "Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All" by Stephen Douglas Engle....really just need chapter(s) relating to his time under Henry Halleck in the Western theater Help a guy out?
Paperback, 2014
$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cold War: Power Plays 05
Tom Clancy
@jamesjhistory A pair of video games....Silent Service and Battlehawks 1942. Started reading a ton about the PTO. Made my way to Cold War stuff eventually through a combination of Tom Clancy books and other late-80's flight sims. https://t.co/WIieuAF64k
Paperback, Mass Market, 2001
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book