A Fiery Peace in a Cold War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Fiery Peace in a Cold War write by Neil Sheehan. This book was released on 2010-10-05. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The US-Soviet arms race, told through the story of a colorful and visionary American Air Force officer—melding biography, history, world affairs, and science to transport the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. "Compulsively readable and important.” —The New York Times Book Review In this never-before-told story, Neil Sheehan—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award -- details American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever’s quest to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, and describes American efforts to develop the unstoppable nuclear-weapon delivery system, the intercontinental ballistic missile, the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger. In a sweeping narrative, Sheehan brings to life a huge cast of some of the most intriguing characters of the cold war, including the brilliant physicist John Von Neumann, and the hawkish Air Force general, Curtis LeMay.
A Bright Shining Lie
A Bright Shining Lie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Bright Shining Lie write by Neil Sheehan. This book was released on 2009-10-20. A Bright Shining Lie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors that the war should be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that the war had been won. In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, a renowned journalist tells the story of John Vann—"the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam"—and of the tragedy that destroyed a country and squandered so much of America's young manhood and resources.
After the War was Over
After the War was Over - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After the War was Over write by Neil Sheehan. This book was released on 1993. After the War was Over available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Bright Shining Lie revisits the scene of his magisterial account of the war in Vietnam and reveals the country that is just beginning to emerge from the war's ashes. "Enlightening . . . mesmerizing . . . luminously clear".--The New York Times.
A Bubble in Time
A Bubble in Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Bubble in Time write by William L. O'Neill. This book was released on 2009. A Bubble in Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the 1990s as a period of tranquility and prosperity in the United States, with attention to popular culture, politics, higher education, and economic policy.
Shattered Peace
Shattered Peace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shattered Peace write by Daniel Yergin. This book was released on 1990. Shattered Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on once-secret archives and private papers, Daniel Yergin documents this transformation of the American viewpoint and analyzes how the Cold War policy came about.
