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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"So much of what we hear about China and Russia today likens the relationship between these two autocracies and the West to a "rivalry" or a "great-power competition." Some might consider it alarmist to say we are in the midst of a second Cold War, but that may be the only responsible way to describe today's state of affairs. What's more, we have come a long way from Mao Zedong's infamous observation that "political power grows out of the barrel...
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the real-life events that took place in the Kennedy White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
For thirteen extraordinary days in October, 1962, the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. After the discovery of Soviet weapons in Cuba, events and tension escalate between two military superpowers and within the White House. President John F. Kennedy and Special Assistant to the President Kenneth P. O'Donnell are in the...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The relationship between the Roman Empire and its rival, the Parthian-Persian Empire, has long been viewed as bloody, hostile, and destructive. In fact, the truth is more complex. For more than seven hundred years, the Romans lived side by side by their eastern neighbors, sometimes at war, more often at peace, almost always trading with each other to their mutual benefit. The Roman Empire was wealthier and larger than the Persian Empire and its predecessor,...
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