Ice And Snow In The Cold War
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Ice and Snow in the Cold War
Author | : Julia Herzberg,Christian Kehrt,Franziska Torma |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2018-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781785339875 |
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The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington center stage. Meanwhile, regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery have received little attention. However, such environments were of no small importance during the Cold War: in addition to their symbolic significance, they also had direct implications for everything from military strategy to natural resource management. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of “East” and “West.”
Black Ice Agent A Cold War Story
Author | : Ulrich Hinse |
Publsiher | : EDITION digital |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783965212015 |
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It is the black ice spy Reiner Paul Fülle, about whom part of his life story is told in this novel. Born in Zwickau and came to the West as a child, Fülle was recruited by the State Security as a young man while visiting his relatives in Thuringia. A spy at the MfS since 1964, he supplied information from the Karlsruhe nuclear research facility to the GDR for adventure and money. On January 19, 1979, Reiner Paul Fülle was arrested by the BKA. He escaped and was brought to the GDR in a wooden box a few days later by the Soviet military mission. Because the BKA officials slipped on black ice during the persecution, abundance was referred to in the German media as black ice spy. Not least because he was very reluctant to be spanked or prescribed, and because his wife persistently refused to move to the GDR, he made his return to the Federal Republic of Germany. Filled with false papers, Fülle returned in late 1981.
Films on Ice
Author | : MacKenzie Scott MacKenzie |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2015-11-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781474410403 |
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The first book to address the vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic presents the region as one of great and previously overlooked cinematic diversity.
The Russian Cold
Author | : Julia Herzberg,Andreas Renner,Ingrid Schierle |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2021-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781800731288 |
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Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history. In chapters encompassing such diverse topics as polar exploration, the Eastern Front in World War II, and the iconography of hockey, it explores the multiplicity and ambiguity of “cold” in the Russian context and demonstrates the value of environmental-historical research for enriching national and imperial histories.
Exploring Greenland
Author | : Ronald E. Doel,Kristine C. Harper,Matthias Heymann |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2016-07-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137596888 |
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Using newly declassified documents, this book explores why U.S. military leaders after World War II sought to monitor the far north and understand the physical environment of Greenland, a crucial territory of Denmark. It reveals a fascinating yet little-known realm of Cold War intrigue and a delicate diplomatic duet between a smaller state and a superpower amid a time of intense global pressures. Written by scholars in Denmark and the United States, this book explores many compelling topics. What led to the creation of the U.S. Thule Air Base in Greenland, one of the world’s largest, and why did the U.S. build a nuclear-powered city under Greenland’s ice cap? How did Danish concern about sovereignty shape scientific research programs in Greenland? Also explored here: why did Denmark’s most famous scientist, Inge Lehmann, became involved in research in Greenland, and what international reverberations resulted from the crash of a U.S. B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear weapons near Thule in January 1968?
Corporal Boskin s Cold Cold War
Author | : Joseph Boskin |
Publsiher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2011-09-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780815650508 |
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At the height of the Korean War in 1952, a budding young historian was drafted into the U.S. Army just as the Pentagon was organizing a top-secret, scientific expeditionary unit, the Transportation Arctic Group (TRARG). Consisting of 275 military members and a cluster of civilian scientists from the United States and other countries, TRARG was sent to Thule Air Force Base, located on the west coast of northern Greenland. Its ostensible purpose was to map the terrain and test complex equipment at the edges of the Ice Cap. The covert objective, however, was to determine the feasibility of constructing yet another air base on the other side of Greenland, one that would be much closer to the enemy. As the sole historian of the unit, Corporal Boskin was responsible for compiling and transmitting weekly progress reports to the Pentagon and, at the conclusion of the mission, for assisting in the final assessment. The multivolume report was itself technically worthy, yet it possessed barely a hint of the personal story: the outsized characters, the dark comedy and real tragedy, the frustrations and waste, and the ongoing tug’of’war between the company commander and his corporal historian over the status of the report’s basic contents. Here Boskin tells that story, a keenly observed narrative that delivers both the absurd and the sublime in equal measure.
Oceanic Histories
Author | : David Armitage,Alison Bashford,Sujit Sivasundaram |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108423182 |
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Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.