Cold War Britain, 1945-1964
Author | : Michael Francis Hopkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael Francis Hopkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : |
Author | : M. Hopkins |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2002-12-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 140391978X |
Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1964 offers new perspectives on ways in which Britain fought the Cold War, and illuminates key areas of the policy formulation process. It argues that in many ways Britain and the United States perceived and handled the threat posed by the Communist bloc in similar terms: nevertheless, Britain's continuing global commitments, post-war economic problems and somestic considerations obliged her on occasion to tackle the threat rather differently.
Author | : Huw Dylan |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191631434 |
During the Second World War British intelligence provided politicians and soldiers with invaluable knowledge. Britain was determined to maintain this advantage following victory, but the wartime machinery was uneconomical, unwieldy, and unsuitable for peace. Drawing on oral testimony, international archives, and private papers, Defence Intelligence and the Cold War provides the first history of the hitherto little-known organisation designed to preserve and advance British capability in military and military-related intelligence for the Cold War: the Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB). Headed by General Eisenhower's wartime intelligence man, Major General Kenneth Strong, the JIB was central to the mission to spy on and understand the Soviet Union, and the broader Communist world. It did so from its creation in 1946 to its end in 1964, when it formed a central component of the new Defence Intelligence Staff. This volume reveals hitherto hidden aspects of Britain's mission to map the Soviet Union for nuclear war, the struggle to understand and contain the economies of the USSR, China, and North Korea in peace and during the Korean War, and the urgent challenge to understand the nature and scale of the Soviet bomber and missile threat in the 1950s and 1960s. The JIB's dedicated work in these fields won it the support of some politicians and military men, but the enmity of others who saw the centralised organisation as a threat to traditional military intelligence. The intelligence officers of the JIB waged Cold War not only with Communist adversaries but also in Whitehall.
Author | : Anne Deighton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2016-01-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349107565 |
This collection challenges views of the Cold War as a purely bipolar affair, involving only the United States and the Soviet Union. It shows that Britain took a lead and continued to play an part in a drive to contain communism and that she tried to keep her own position as a great world power.
Author | : Sean Greenwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780333693315 |
Author | : Anne Deighton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : |
Author | : S. Kelly |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2000-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 033398532X |
The question of the Italian colonies played an important part in the breakdown of Allied cooperation after the Second World War. Britain and the United States were closely involved in this question, yet their respective roles have not received the detailed historical attention which they merit. Based on extensive research in British and American archives, this book will seek to analyse British and US policy on this question within its Cold War context.
Author | : Becky Conekin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Gift to King's University College Library from Prof. Brian Patton, 2005.
Author | : Richard J. Aldrich |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2005-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113489855X |
The Cold War is often considered to be the quintessential intelligence conflict. Yet secret intelligence remains the `missing dimension' of Britain's Cold War history. This volume offers an authoritative picture of Britain's clandestine role in the development of the Cold War focusing upon the key issues of intelligence and strategy.
Author | : Arnold A. Offner |
Publisher | : Modern War Studies |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
In this collection, senior scholars explore the transit ion from war to uneasy peace: how and why the war ended as it did, whether a different resolution was possible, and if the ensuing Cold War was inevitable.