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Adam J. Levine analyzes the origins of the Cuban Missile Crisis, with a particular focus on Nikita Khrushchev's motives and the response of the Kennedy administration.

The Comprehensive Textbook of Healthcare Simulation is a cohesive, single-source reference on all aspects of simulation in medical education and evaluation.  It covers the use of simulation in training in each specialty and is aimed at healthcare educators and administrators who are developing their own simulation centers or programs and professional organizations looking to incorporate the technology into their credentialing process.  For tho...

This text puts American policy on Southeast Asia and the traumatic events of the second Indochina War into the larger perspective of the Cold War. It treats a range of topics from the local appeals of communist parties in the region to the development of the domino theory and its consequences.

An exciting account of a little-known, yet vital part of World War II, the Allied effort to blockade Axis forces in North Africa with a relatively small number of planes and submarines included some of the war's most spectacular air battles and opened the way to the attack on Fortress Europe from the south.

This military and political history of the Korean War endeavors to give a fresh account of the war. It places the events in Korea into the larger framework of the early 1950s period of the Gold War and discusses the possibility that Stalin interpreted the conflict as a preliminary phase of World War III.

Traces the development of the Soviet Union and the Communist movement from 1917 to the Nazi invasion of the USSR in June 1941. The author argues that the Cold War had its origins in the development of a totalitarian Communist regime in the former Russian Empire under the impact of World War I.

Here is a history of the development of military missiles and space travel from World War II to the American visits to the Moon in 1969-1972. It stresses the relationship between the early stages of space exploration and the arms race, and that a dual path led to space flight. One was the development of unmanned long-range war rockets, the other, less often noted, was the rocket-powered research plane. The first path led through the interconti...

This bold and controversial book takes a hard look at an old subject-race relations in the Western world. Using history as a backdrop, the author illustrates how racism and ethnic chauvinism are, sadly, common. The author warns against the harm of colorthink-an excessive obsession with race and racism-and explores the impact of such thinking on race relations today. He gives no comfort to either racists or more fashionable contemporaries obses...

This work provides a detailed history of the Western armies in the liberation of Europe. From the D-Day landings to the German surrender, it aims to explain why events panned out the way they did.

A collection of prisoner of war and concentration camp survivor stories from some of the toughest World War II camps in Europe and the Pacific, this book details the daring escapes and highlights the fundamental aspects of human nature that made such heroic efforts possible. Levine takes a comprehensive approach, including evasion efforts by those fleeing before the enemy who never reached formal prisoner of war camps, as well as escapes from ...

Concise history of the Allied campaign to liberate Northwest Europe during World War II Places the campaign in the war's broader context Casts new light on some familiar subjects and recounts many neglected issues This study describes not only what happened from the D-Day landings in June 1944 to the surrender of Germany eleven months later, but also why it happened. While an enormous amount has been written about this campaign, most of it fo...

This book is the only full-scale account of the strategic air offensive against Germany published in the last 20 years, and is also the only one that treats the British and the Americans with parity. Much of what Levine writes about British operations will be unfamiliar to American readers. Levine gets past a simple account of "what we did to them" and describes the target systems and German countermeasures in detail, providing exact yet drama...

As Erwin Rommel¿s Afrika Korps regrouped in Tunisia in late 1942, the Allies began a blockade of the Germans with a relatively small number of planes and submarines. Rommel¿s campaign relied on sea and air supply lines across the Mediterranean and would be crippled if the flow of fuel and supplies was cut off. The American and British interdiction operation produced some of the fiercest air battles of World War II and one of only two successfu...

For many, especially those on the political left, the 1950s are the "bad old days". This work shows that the commonly accepted picture of the 1950s is flawed. It shows that the conventional view of the 1950s stands in opposition to the reality of the decade.