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With more than 65 years of participation in and observation of political and economic systems, Paul T. Hellyer analyzes what he believes has gone wrong with the world and its economy....

How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war - and the steep price he paid for failing....

On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth about what the Russian secret services found was hidden from history, when, three months later....

One of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works...

A circus performer turned superspy is caught up in a Cold War web of conspiracy and death when the body of a murdered CIA agent is discovered in a Hawaiian marine park....

“Revolt in Berlin: Part One” is the fifth book in Noel Hynd’s ‘Flowers From Berlin’ series. It is the early 1950s, the end of the Truman ...

The US Army entered World War II unprepared. Lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground, one in the air....

Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is a collection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers....

Defectors fleeing the Soviet Union seized the world's attention during the Cold War. Defectors follows their treacherous journeys and looks at how their unauthorized flight via land, sea, and air gave shape to a globalized world....

Drama on the high seas as the world holds its breath....

War Virus A science fiction medical thriller set in Vancouver during the Cold War era.War Virus is a riveting dystopian science fiction novel set ...

How the history of liberal order and democratic politics since the 1930s explains ongoing threats to democracy and international order....

This paper explores President Truman’s decision to intervene in the Korean War and then cross the 38th parallel and invade North Korea. An ...

In 1979, alarmed Soviet leaders watched the growing civil war in Afghanistan with trepidation. Russia’s neighbor had been a close ally for many years, acting as a buffer between Russia and British India....

Mark Sava is thrown into the fight of his life when an unresolved Cold War mystery involving his first love collides with a present-day Russia on the march....

Nikita Khrushchev came to power in the aftermath of the notorious Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s death. Although Khrushchev came on the scene with aggression and fury (the world would never forget how he declared that he would bury the West), he was ultimately a much more peaceful Soviet leader....

The Russian military and KGB’s planned coup and assassination of General Secretary Gorbachev threatened to disrupt the tenuous end of the Cold ...

The United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor. Yet there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the politics and societies of recipient nations. Aiding and Abetting explores whether foreign aid does more harm than good....

From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century, the past is littered with long-term strategic rivalries....

In a time of danger and distrust, two lovers seek redemption...and a way back to each other. "The Bone Church" is a hypnotic tale of war and ...