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The definitive text in the field, thoroughly updated and expanded
Hailed by professionals around the world as the definitive text on the subject, Cold-Formed Steel Design is an indispensable resource for all who design for and work with cold-formed steel. No other book provides such exhaustive coverage of both the theory and practice of cold-formed steel construction. Updated and expanded to reflect all the important developments that have occurred in the field over the past decade, this Third Edition of the classic text provides you with more of the detailed, up-to-the-minute technical information and expert guidance you need to make optimum use of this incredibly versatile material for building construction.
Wei-Wen Yu, an internationally respected authority in the field, draws upon decades of experience in cold-formed steel design, research, teaching, and development of design specifications to provide guidance on all practical aspects of cold-formed steel design for manufacturing, civil engineering, and building applications. Throughout the book, he describes the structural behavior of cold-formed steel members and connections from both the theoretical and experimental perspectives, and discusses the rationale behind the AISI design provisions. Cold-Formed Steel Design, Third Edition features complete coverage of:
* AISI 1996 cold-formed steel design specification with the 1999 supplement
* Both ASD and LRFD methods
* The latest design procedures for structural members
* Updated design information for connections and systems
* Contemporary design criteria around the world
* The latest computer-aided design techniques
Cold-Formed Steel Design, Third Edition is a necessary tool-of-the-trade for structural engineers, manufacturers, construction managers, and architects. It is also an excellent advanced text for college students and researchers in structural engineering, architectural engineering, construction engineering, and related disciplines.
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Pretty useful book on cold-formed design .......2007-01-20
I have not gone through 1 chapter yet. But the inroduction is already illuminating about aspects of cold-formed members, which are not so clearly explained in other books I've come across. The only setback is it is not in SI units, making it hard to use in places like Singapore.
This is a best one........2001-10-16
Cold formed steel is cheap and widely supply in some country. By using the code in this book, I can reduce so much material cost from expensive imported wide flange into a self made double I beam by using 2 C light lip. This book is practical can be use in real construction by following detailed example.
The code is very new and up to date. This is the book you should not miss..
Extensive discussion on physical behavior of steel members.......1998-05-05
Writen as a text book, this work looks at in particular the behavior of cold formed steel members. It gives complete and useful information regarding the strength of thin elements common to cold formed steel and a guide to design. The information is also very applicable to larger hot rolled steel member design in that it illustrates what design assumptions are taken for granted when designing with thicker members. Subjects included are flexural and compression members, cylindrical tubular members, connections, diaphragms, shell roofs structures, corrugated sheet, and composite design. Overall a very useful resource.
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This book describes how the United States Air Force tactical reconnaissance units operated from the end of World War II until the 1970s. This was an immensely active period that also included major conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. It was also a period of rapid technological development in aircraft and photographic techniques. The book includes the following:
Introduction: The post war period in Europe and the East. The Korean Conflict and the role of the 67th TRW from 1950 to 1954. The role of the highly secret RF-86 missions over Red China and the Soviet Far East in the early to mid '50s. Also the RB-57A missions out of Bitburg and Yokota flying clandestinely over the Soviet Union and the RF-100A missions that were flown over the Soviet Union from Turkey, Rhine Maine and Yokota. United States Air Forces in Europe. The Cuban Missile Crisis and the role of the RF-101 Voodoos and RB-66s.
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Tac Recon Memories.......2007-08-10
This is a superb work of research and writing by Doug Gordon. Text and photos in Chapters I through IV triggered vivid memories of my service in the 112th/1st TRS from 1952 to 1954 under the leadership of Lt. Col. Steven R. Wilkerson, Squadron CO. A night photo squadron, we experienced the good and the bad as we operated temporarily from picturesque Wiesbaden, Germany, the miserable conditions of Toul-Rosieres, France and finally Spangdahlem, Germany. We may have been regarded as vagabonds of a sort, but we accomplished our missions and held a party to end all parties in July 1953 in Bitburg to celebrate the completion of 10,000 accident-free flying hours in RB-26C aircraft: an outstanding record.
A good read for those who appreciate this era in American aviation history.
Tactical Recon in the Cold War.......2007-05-24
Absolutely a fantastic book. The style and content reminds me of Wings and Airpower in its heyday. There is information in this book you will find nowhere else. The other Pen and Sword book, Voodoo Warriors ,is equally as good. Anyone who has the least bit of interest in the men and aircraft of this period will do no wrong in selecting this book.
Informative book.......2007-01-19
I really like this book because it was well researched and covered a subject that is not covered in many places and not in this much detail.
Tac Recon in TheCold War.......2007-01-09
Since I am one of the Recon Pilots of the 15TRS (mentioned in the Book) duing the Korean War I flew 101 Combat Missions over North Korea (August 1951 to Feb 1952 I feel that Doug Gordon did an OUTSTANDING job. This book has been needed for a long time. We Korean Veterans fought a War that is known as the FORGOTTEN WAR but I can never forget the very good friends that never returned home such as 1st Lt. Charles Walter Rhinehart. His F-86 J-47 lost oil during a tangle with MIG-15's and he ejected over the Yellow Sea. He was listed as MIA and later KIA having been taken to Russia. He died while he was held prisoner in a Russian Slave Labor Camp known as a Gulag.
Thank you,
Francis W.(Frank) Meyer
Major, USAF (Ret)
An Outstanding Look At Tac Recce.......2006-08-03
Doug Gordon has done an outstanding job of chronicling the work of Tactical Reconnaissance in the cold war era.. personal refereneces and many photos make this a great read. I was briefly with the 303TRS in Germany and the book a was a wonderful trip down memory lane .. and full of stories and memories of the great pilots I was privileged to know.
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Bracing Cold-Formed Steel Structures
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Cold-Formed Steel Design, 3rd Edition
ASIN: 0784408173 |
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Bracing Cold-Formed Steel Structures: A Design Guide documents the current practices related to bracing cold-formed steel structure elements and systems. For many engineers the design of structures using cold-formed steel is seen as a daunting task. This report seeks to remove some of the perceived mystery by providing readily useful information for bracing these structures. Heavy on applications and examples, this book contains design examples illustrating bracing design for various types of cold-formed steel structures, as well as an extensive list of primary reference sources. This report is presented as a design guide and will assist the practicing engineer in designing cold-formed steel structures with greater levels of reliability, safety, and economy. Topics Include: ⢠Introduction to Bracing Design ⢠Cold-Formed Framing ⢠Cold-Formed Steel in Metal Building Systems ⢠Miscellaneous Cold-Formed Steel Elements and Systems
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This volume is the second in the series Cold War Documentary Readers, a project of the US National Security Archive and the Cold War International History Project.
The volume is the first documented account of this early Cold War crisis from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Based on the recent unprecedented access to the once-closed archives of several member states of the Warsaw Pact, this collection of primary-source documents presents one of the most notorious events of post-war European history in a highly readable format.
Previously unreleased Kremlin records, once highly classified American documents, materials from the Soviet Foreign Ministry, and transcripts of internal East German Communist Party Politburo meetings in the days leading to the uprising in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) are among the highlights of this sensational documentary.
In this volume, as in the previous one in the series, each part is preceded by a detailed introductory essay to provide the necessary historical and political context. The individual documents are introduced by short headnotes summarizing the contents and orienting the reader. A chronology, glossary and bibliography offer further background information.
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Design of Metallic Cold-Formed Thin-Walled Members
A. Ghersi ,
Federico M. Mazzolani , and
Raffaele Landolfo
Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis
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ASIN: 0415244374 |
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This book approaches cold-forming techniques and the specific problems of cold-formed thin-walled members. It discusses the problems that may be covered in the evaluation of the strength of cross-sections and the buckling resistance of members, and highlights the theoretical basis and the design approach necessary to overcome them. Of particular benefit is a Windows-based program accompanying the book that allows the reader to easily evaluate the strength of a cross-section and the buckling resistance of a member for both steel and aluminum.
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The early years of the cold war were marked by America's so-called containment strategy, which meant, in short, keeping Communism penned within its existing borders. Former New York Times reporter Peter Grose, however, suggests that this was merely window-dressing. In Operation Rollback, he writes:
Even as containment was being scorned as appeasement and timidity in the first months of 1948, a high-level staff within the State Department was devising a remarkable initiative to confront communism aggressively through clandestine action. The secret program would start with innocuous propaganda and persuasion, then proceed directly into sabotage, subversion, and paramilitary engagement.
This book is a history of that effort, kept under wraps until recently, says Grose, because both sides had a motive to avoid the publicity: the Soviets didn't want to acknowledge resistance movements inside their client states, and the Americans refused to admit their failure. Grose writes that the rollback was never revealed to Congress and that public monies didn't even pay for it; funding came from a secret account maintained by the Treasury Department and linked to Marshall Plan repayments. Operation Rollback is a groundbreaking work of cold-war history, and an engaging one to read. --John J. Miller
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After the collapse of Nazi power in 1945, a sweeping change occurred in international relations that would transform the landscape of world politics for the next half-century. Uneasy allies in the war against Germany, the United States and the Soviet Union started secretly mobilizing forces against each other, building intricate networks of spies and digging in for the postwar era. America's secret action plan was known as Rollback, an audacious strategy of espionage, subversion, and sabotage to foment insurrection in the Soviet satellite countries. The architect of the plan, an enigmatic American diplomat first known to the world under the pseudonym "X," publicly advocated an effort to "contain" communism. But following his legendary Long Telegram, Mr. X -- George Kennan -- devised a program of active confrontation with the Soviets through covert action. Within the secret councils of the Truman administration, hidden from the public as well as from most of the government, Kennan and his colleagues set in motion a series of daring and dramatic, though ultimately failed, secret missions behind the Iron Curtain. Concealed by all sides for four decades, the dangerous episodes of the Rollback campaign have only now come to light. Peter Grose here untangles the extraordinary, little-known story for the first time, artfully reconstructing a hidden history of intrigue and tragic obsession, of secret plots and larger-than-life personalities. Operation Rollback reveals how and why suspicions and recriminations on both sides drove the world into the Cold War.
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A spy thriller, cloak & dagger novel based on real life........2001-01-12
If you enjoy spy thrillers, cloak and dagger novels, and James Bond movies, you will want to read this true life account of early American espionage efforts in post-war Europe and the Soviet Union. .....>This account, drawn from now declassified source material, makes for a fascinating read. Author Peter Grose expertly weaves together detailed information in a riveting style that will keep you turning the pages.
Kennan the diplomat or Kennan the spy?.......2000-12-09
Grose's effort is sharp and to the point. On the one hand it is not really surprising: Who really believed that the Bay of Pigs was America's only rollback attempt?! On the other hand, this book was downright shocking, revealing that Rollback's chief architect was none other than Mr. Spyphobia himself, George F. Kennan. The great diplomat obviously packed two lines of sharply-contradictory reasoning.
Secret Disasters and Modest Successes.......2000-08-21
In early 1946, Averill Harriman became personna non grata with Stalin and left Moscow as ambassador to the Soviet Union. His temporary replacement was George Kennan who soon sent the famous "long telegram" that espoused a foreign policy of attempting to overthrow communist regimes. This policy was soon printed in public by Kennan after he temporarily left the State Department as Mr. X.
Based on this argument, the Truman administration took up a dual position of "containment of communism" in public and a private approach of using propaganda, secret operations, and establishing spies behind the Iron Curtain. All of this private approach was unknown to Congress and to the American public. As Truman was publicly lambasted by those who wanted to overthrow communism for the policy of containment, these pro-overthrow policies were already in active implementation. In this book the hitherto unpublished full story of those operations is revealed.
Primarily funded from the Marshall Plan, these operations included some successes. For example, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty transmitted into communist countries and helped establish an alternative to communist propaganda. Both were secretly subsidized by the U.S.
But for the most part, the operations were unsuccessful. A very large percentage of the agents introduced behind the Iron Curtain were quickly rounded up, and many were executed. The reasons seem to be twofold: Kim Philby (the British spy for the Soviets) was aware of the details of many of these operations and passed the information along to his Soviet masters, and the Americans had waited too long to get started. The resistance movements they hoped to help were being systematically crushed by communist regimes right after World War II, and the emigre populations were soon filled with Soviet agents who could compromise insurgent operations. In fact, the most successful Soviet resistance movement was one that avoided connection with the U.S.
These disasters were kept secret by both the Americans (out of embarrassment about their lack of success) and by the Soviets (out of a desire to avoid people knowing about internal resistance movements). With the end of the Cold War, the author had access to many documents and people who were able to tell this story.
Readers will find a variety of things to condemn about this operation by the U.S. In many cases, Nazi war criminals were knowingly recruited. In other cases, the operations were done very amateurishly. So those who favor this type of activity will condemn its effectiveness. In almost all cases, there seemed to be a basic disregard for the lives of the agents. Also, how far should a democracy be going to affect the governments of other countries? The Eisenhower administration quickly concluded that Operation Rollback had gone too far, and pulled back its interference in many cases. Further, establishing and encouraging civil wars and guerilla wars in other countries certainly can harm the lives of those in those countries. What is the humanitarian thing to do? In both the Hungarian (1956) and Czech (1968) revolutions, the U.S. stood to the side. Humanitarian aid to striking East German workers after World War II, on the other hand, was well received. A particularly interesting question is whether one should only use the tools of one's own ideology to advance that ideology? In the case of the U.S., this would mean relying more on free speech and free competition than covert military action. Ultimately, the downfall of the Soviet Union came from its inability to compete economically, worsened by the overt military competition of the arms race.
The book is well-written and detailed enough to allow you to make your own evaluation of Operation Rollback and the policies behind it. You will also get new perspectives on famous Americans like President Truman, John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Joe McCarthy.
Reasonable people will differ on their answers to these questions, but Operation Rollback should be evaluated and understood for its lessons concerning future U.S. policies. Certainly, the Bay of Pigs repeated many of the mistakes of Operation Rollback. Although the intelligence community has long ago done this evaluation, this book should inspire some good debate in the general public.
This is a cautionary tale in many ways that should cause us to reexamine our own assumptions about when the ends justify the means. For example, in your life, how far should you go to avoid paying taxes? How far should you go to protect your family? What are the limits to protecting your own life?
Be cautious in implementing your idealism and your self-interest!
The real Story of early Covert Operations.......2000-07-26
In January 1946, George F. Kennon, a career diplomat trained in Soviet Affairs, became the ambassador to the U.S.S.R. when Averell Harriman returned to the United States. Kennon wrote many dispatches about the turmoil within the Soviet Union, but they were largely ignored. When asked to write an "Interpretive Analysis" of Soviet statements regarding international institutions, Kennon let loose with both barrels. This paper became the basis for future American policies towards the Soviet Union.
This is a fine account of the people and early (if inept) efforts by the U.S. to subvert the Soviet control of Eastern Europe just after WWII. The book traces the political background and the maneuvering of the World Powers and is instructive as to the current environments in Albania, Hungary, Romania, Poland, and the emerging Balkan States.
The early efforts of the OPC (Office of Policy Coordination), that were mostly thwarted by the infamous spy Kim Philby (British Liaison Officer), are covered in some depth. The OPC was later absorbed by the CIA. Also discussed are the secret ways the OPC was financed and its existence kept hidden from the American public. I had never heard of the OPC, but these guys were responsible for covert operations. They tried to stir up trouble within the Soviet sphere of influence, including the Soviet Union itself. They trained operators recruited from Eastern European Refugees, arranged and carried out parachute drops of agents behind the Iron Curtain, smuggled weapons, and dispersed money to agents and sympathizers. They also carried out propaganda campaigns and started Radio Free Europe.
It is interesting that the Soviets had so penetrated the political parties and intelligence agencies of the U.S. and Great Britain long before World War II started. What is also fascinating is that we knew about much of their spying efforts and for a long time chose to ignore them. There were a lot of sympathizers in the U.S. that were rooting for the socialist experiment.
This is a fine book for students of Political Science, Post WWII History, and fans of the history of covert operations. I have read many novels and seen many movies about secret operations, but they pale compared to the real stuff!
Fascinating Account Spoiled by Political Bias.......2000-05-21
While this book is a fascinating account of early attempt to combat the Soviet Empire, the narrative is somewhat spoiled by the author's obvious political bias. The author gives the impression that he doesn't think Soviet tyranny was worthy of much concern and that people who were concerned about it were ill-advised. President Truman's anti-communism is at one point called "petulence." Even so the book is an invaluable piece of history about a little known subject. One of the most fascinating revelations is the fact that one of the figures of the radical sixties, one Reverand William Sloan Coffin, was a participant in Operation Rollback.
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Cold-Formed Steel Structures to the AISI Specification (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Gregory J. Hancock ,
Thomas Murray , and
Duane S. Ellifrit
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Cold-Formed Steel Design, 3rd Edition
ASIN: 0824792947 |
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This volume reveals the behaviour and design of cold-formed steel structures, connections and systems. It describes the AISI Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members published in July 2000, which governs the design of all cold-formed steel frames, including roof, wall and racking systems, and cold-formed steel residential construction in the USA. The text offers worked examples which can be programmed using MATHCAD or EXCEL.
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Some fifty thousand Soviets visited the United States under various exchange programs between 1958 and 1988. They came as scholars and students, scientists and engineers, writers and journalists, government and party officials, musicians, dancers, and athletes-and among them were more than a few KGB officers. They came, they saw, they were conquered, and the Soviet Union would never again be the same. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War describes how these exchange programs (which brought an even larger number of Americans to the Soviet Union) raised the Iron Curtain and fostered changes that prepared the way for Gorbachev's glasnost, perestroika, and the end of the Cold War.
This study is based upon interviews with Russian and American participants as well as the personal experiences of the author and others who were involved in or administered such exchanges. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War demonstrates that the best policy to pursue with countries we disagree with is not isolation but engagement.
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Correction.......2005-01-12
You have spelled the author's name wrong. My name is Yale Richmond, and the paper edition of the book was published in 2004, not 2000.
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Informative and Enjoyable........2004-09-28
Cultural Exchange highlights the intrinsic events within the educational system, that is, the exchange program between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., that led to the downfall of the Soviet Union by the ideas that it helped to foster. It gives you a detailed, well researched account of the events that led to these programs, as well as many small entertaining tid-bits such as students in the program who were afraid to do anything because they thought the CIA was working with the KGB. All in all, a synopsis of the book is not needed here, just pick it up yourself if you have an interest in the Cold War and/or the events that led to the downfall of the Soviet Union, to see for yourself what lies within the book.
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Readable and Exhilerating.......2003-12-06
Scholarly and illuminating, Richmond's book colorfully documents official, government Soviet-American cultural exchanges that began after Stalin died in 1953, and helped to break down barriers of fear and ignorance, at a time that many of us felt the Cold War was freezing all contact.
These cultural exchanges involved books, movies, writers, performing artists, scientists, technologists, think tanks, politicans, and scholars.
Richmond writes eloquently, liberally using quotes of people who took part in the exchanges. One was organized by Gerald Mikkelson, professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Kansas, and it flourished in the 1970s and 80s. From several days to several weeks, Soviet writers came to the university, experienced the Midwest, and went away forever changed.
"Those visits to Kansas," says Mikkelson, "not only broadened their horizons culturally and ideologically, and gave them plenty of food for thought that sometimes got translated into specific literary works or images, but it added to their prestige and emboldened them at home in their efforts to make the Soviet Union a more livable place for writers and people in the other creative and performing arts."
Imagine a Soviet writer being plunked down in Kansas!
And other new places!
The same for Americans in the Soviet Union!
Some Soviet scholars were not allowed to take part, because the Soviet Foreign Travel Commission didn't think they were "reliable" to travel abroad, for whatever reasons. One of them was Soviet professor George Mirsky, a Middle East expert, who whole-heartedly encouraged his students at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations to go on such exchanges.
Mirsky writes, "Before the exchange, people believed that Western society, no matter how wealthy and affluent, was narrowly materialistic, devoid of any humanism and spirituality, selfish and arrogant, indifferent to moral, cultural, and artistic values, full of hostility for Russians and of anti-Communist crusading spirit.
"What amazed them was American hospitality, warmth, willingness to oblige, civility and politeness, lack of ethnic prejudices, care for disabled, richness of artistic life, pluralism of opinions, abundance of associations. The Soviets were able for the first time in their lives to see a functioning civil society. This was a great surprise...The exchange visitors would never be the same again."
As a musician and lover of the arts, I especially enjoyed the chapter on performing arts, with highlights of American impresario Sol Hurok's success in bringing Soviet musicians, dance troupes, ice shows, and circuses to the U.S. As a child, I had seen some of these performances, but not been aware of their long-range effect! Reciprocal trips took such Amerian writers as Norman Cousins, Robert Lowell, and Edward Albee, and such groups as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the American Ballet Theatre, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to the Soviet Union.
These cultural exchanges paved the way for the the arrival of Mikhail Gorbachev to the presidency of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev and his wife had done a great deal of foreign travel in the 1970s and 80s, and loved it. They saw that another world existed beyond their country. As president, Gorbachev opened the door even farther and moved the Soviet Union forward to help end the Cold War.
I love this book because it is informative, inspiring, and written with obvious relish and passion. Richmond was there, working on these exchanges, helping to get people talking, and opening up their minds. He records this first-hand. Who else can tell such a great story so well? I recommend the book to anyone who wants to learn, to understand more about history, and to appreciate the people who changed it. Bravi!
OPENING DOORS TO THE ENEMY.......2003-09-01
The jacket of Richmond's book states that this work "demonstrates that the best policy to pursue with countries with whom we disagree is not isolation but engagement." Whether or not this is universally true, a very strong case is made for this argument in this study of cultural exchanges during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.
The exchanges between the two countries were initiated by President Eisenhower in a letter to Bulganin, the Soviet head of state, and were begun in 1958. Whatever concerns there might have been about potential Soviet espionage, the program found approval even from FBI Director J. Edger Hoover. Richmond demonstrates the wisdom of this program as thousands of Russians and Americans participated in these exchanges which continued up to the time when the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
The book's table of contents provides early clues to the range of the program. There were exchanges of scholars in science and in the political and social sciences, exchanges of scientists and technicians for conferences and participation in working groups, exchanges of journalists and diplomats, and the well publicized exchanges of performing artists in ballet, music and theater. Students in the exchange program often remained in the host country for several years; scientists and technicians only for the several weeks of a conference or working group.
The background to the exchange rogram is provided through citations from the reports of American administrators and scholars associated with it and through personal interviews in which they describe the difficulties of implementation in the face of bureaucratic obstacles from two mutually suspicious countries. It is the interviews with the exchange participants, however, which is at the very heart of this quiet but remarkable story. Of particular interest are the interviews with dozens of participants from the Soviet Union.
This reader was arrested by the positions held by the Soviet participants at the time of their arrival in the U.S. and by what became of them and their careers on their return to the home country. In contrast with the American exchange scholars who came largely out of academia, many from the Soviet appear to have held government positions when they arrived in the U.S. or at some earlier time. The nature of some of these positions is especially surprising to the lay reader. Among four students who came to study at Columbia University, for example, two were in the KGB, one in Soviet military intelligence, and the fourth in the Central Committee of the Communist Party. These backgrounds do not appear to have been exceptional among Soviet exchange scholars.
It is not certain from Richmond's reports if expsure to the U.S. through this program was, in general, an advantage or handicap to Soviet participants' careers on their return home. Nevertheless, it is evident from some of the case studies that some achieved positions of great influence. Alexander Yakolev, for example, became a senior advisor to Gorbechev and is known as the "godfather of glasnost." Rem Khoklov was awarded the Lenin Prize for his scientific research and became a member of the Soviet Parliament. What may have been of importance even greater than those who reached high positions, however, is that many scholars were inthe government and on the job when the Soviet Union collapsed and were prepared for the social and economic changes which were to come.
At a time of increasing barriers to those who would enter the U.S. as students or observers, CULTURAL EXCHANGES AND THE COLD WAR demonstrates the value of openness even during the most stressful periods of the Cold War. American leaders coming from a broad political spectrum took the risk of allowing access to this country by students and leaders from our most feared competitor. From this there appears to have been an unimagined payoff.
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Cold Iron (A Henri Castang Mystery)
Nicolas Freeling
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A Henri Castang Mystery - A rich aristocrat is found murdered and Henri Castang is called in to investigate. What he reveals is a startling series of discoveries. The murdered woman, Madame Lecat kept herself occupied with drink, cocaine and affairs of the heart. But what is more shocking is the corruption Castang finds swarming beneath the veneer of high society.
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Cold War Clashes: Confronting Communism, 1945-1991
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Contrary to popular belief, the Cold War was not won without a shot being fired. In fact, at least 382 American servicemen were killed by hostile fire in the global conflict. This comprehensive, one-of-a-kind book details the unknown engagements, deadly shoot-downs and covert operations of the 45-year struggle with international communism, told by the men who were there. Youll stand with GIs and Marines in early face-offs in Czechoslovakia, Italy, Austria and North China. Youll ride the razors edge with the armored cavalry along Germanys Iron Curtain. Youll track Soviet subs across the seven seas and fly aerial reconnaissance missions in hostile skies. From the crisis in Berlin to deadly firefights on Koreas DMZ to the actions in the Dominican Republic, this book gives unparalleled recognition to the armored cavalrymen, submariners, aerial reconnaissance crews, intelligence operatives and others who won the Cold War. The book features more than 100 illustrations and photos, plus 15 maps; an 8-page, illustrated combat chronology; countless real-life accounts from the veterans who served up front; 23 special features on fascinating facets of the war; a recommended reading list of nearly 100 informative books; and the first-ever honor roll of the 382 known fatal U.S. combat casualties of the Cold War.
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Cliche-Driven and Whining.......2006-08-09
I am a fan of most things Cold War. I welcomed the writing of a book on the lesser known aspects of that ideological/political/military conflict. Alas, in the hands of a conservative, reactionary author with an ax to grind about how little appreciated all of the un-sexy, understudied "side-shows" were, it a tedious read, even for a thin volume. Mr. Kolb is all too ready to accept the prevalent mythology of how "Freedom" and "Democracy" saved the world from godless communism. He conveniently ignores the many bad people we supported and the many evil things we did, all in the name of his Twin Gods (who by now have pretty bad reputations in places like Iraq.)
I give a grudging 3 stars just because there is little else on this subject, and he does provide interesting tidbits (like the last American to be drafted.) Still, the next writer to tackle these little-known anecdotes should not be an escapee from the Fox network.
It was a real war and the U.S. won!.......2006-02-16
Although the Cold War was the longest lasting military confrontation in U.S. history and ended hardly 15 years ago it is largely forgotten, ignored, misunderstood or mischaracterized.
This excellent book of 28 articles originally published in VFW Magazine does not deal with grand political or military strategy but provides a glimpse of Cold War confrontations from the viewpoint of the average soldier, sailor, airman or Marine. The 172-page medium-large format paperback covers the gamut of Cold War confrontations, primarily between the U.S. and former-USSR. A few articles are about the better known incidents such as the Berlin Airlift and air combat during the Korean War, but most of them describe relatively obscure and forgotten, if ever widely known, confrontations in 1940s and 1950s Eastern Europe, the late 1960s in Korea, the Congo, Angola, the Arctic and so forth.
There are dozens of excellent, mostly black-and-white, period photographs, a number of color illustrations, 15 maps of various confrontation theaters, and 22 interesting "sidebars" with statistics or explanations of unusual events. There is a detailed accounting of 382 Cold War casualties with the date, location, name, service and specific unit of each casualty and an eight-page chronology of dozens of specific incidents from all theaters.
Highly recommended for Cold War era veterans (you may be amazed how little you know!), military history buffs and, especially, high school or college students who's instructors either ignore the topic or argue the Cold War never happened.
If you only read one book about Cold War actions make it this one.
Can't put it down!!.......2005-03-11
Since I have received my copy of Cold War Clashes, I can hardly put it down! Finally, a true history of the Cold War for the past, present and future generations. I can personally relate to that time in history, either through personal experience or knowing others close to me, such as my now-deceased brother, an Atomic veteran and participant in Operation Desert Rock.
I was assigned to the 202nd MP Company, Headquarters, United States Forces Austria. I served "behind the Iron Curtain" in Vienna, Austria, during 1946-49. That time period in Vienna, with all its history of intrigue, covert and surreptitious activities by many nations, is worthy of a book unto itself.
I have already commenced advising others, veterans and non-veterans alike--if one is truly interested in true history, then they must read Cold War Clashes.
Finally, someone turned on the light of history. Thank you.
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