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The Spectre of War

Haslam, Jonathan
The Spectre of War
This book is a global history of the Interwar period, which posits a new history for the origins of the Second World War. Jonathan Haslam argues that it was not only the failures of the treaties that ended the First World War that led to the Second, as has traditionally been supposed. Rather, fear of international communism hampered the Great Powers and prevented the necessary diplomatic steps to contain the aggression of Germany and Japan to ...

CHF 35.50

The Spectre of War

Haslam, Jonathan
The Spectre of War
The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew?the roots of the Second World War?and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation. Looking beyond traditional explanations based on diplomatic failures or military might, Jonathan Haslam explores the neglected thread connecting them all: the fear of Communism prevalent across continents during the interwar period. Marshalling an array of archival sources, including records...

CHF 51.50

The Soviet Union and the Threat from the East, 1933-41

Haslam, Jonathan
The Soviet Union and the Threat from the East, 1933-41
This is the third in a series of volumes detailing the history of Soviet foreign policy from the Great Depression to the Great Patriotic War. It covers Soviet policy in the Far East from the Japanese rejection of a non-aggression pact in January 1933 to the conclusion of a neutrality pact in April 1941. During the course of that period the Soviet Union moved from being the vulnerable and isolated suitor to a position of negotiation from strength.

CHF 201.00

The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile

Haslam, Jonathan
The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile
The problems which led to that 1973 coup are elucidated, Soviet indifference to the fate of the regime, the chronic mismanagement of the economy in the drive to socialism, US attempts to bring down the regime by subsidising nationwide strikes and, ultimately, by sponsoring a navy coup without even the knowledge of the CIA station.

CHF 29.90

Near and Distant Neighbours

Haslam, Jonathan (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, George F. Kennan Professor in the School of Historical Studies)
Near and Distant Neighbours
The first ever substantiated and complete history of Soviet intelligence from 1917 to the end of the Cold War. It covers all the main branches - the civilian (most famously embodied in the KGB) and their military rivals (the GRU), as well as their 'poor relations' in signals intelligence. Based on a mass of recently declassified material, the story can be told in full for the first time.

CHF 37.50

Near and Distant Neighbors

Haslam, Jonathan
Near and Distant Neighbors
A uniquely comprehensive and rich account of the Soviet intelligence services, Jonathan Haslam's Near and Distant Neighbors charts the labyrinthine story of Soviet intelligence from the October Revolution to the end of the Cold War.Previous histories have focused on the KGB, leaving military intelligence and the special service--which specialized in codes and ciphers--lurking in the shadows. Drawing on previously neglected Russian sources, Has...

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