Cold War
Persons of Interest: An intimate account of Cecily and John Burton by Pamela Burton with Meredith Edwards
by Peter Edwards •
White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War history of migration to Australia by Sheila Fitzpatrick
by Stuart Macintyre •
The Last Million: Europe’s displaced persons from World War to Cold War by David Nasaw
by Sheila Fitzpatrick •
Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to free Russia by Benjamin Tromly
by Mark Edele •
Who Lost Russia?: How the world entered a new Cold War by Peter Conradi
by Iva Glisic •
Virtuosi Abroad: Soviet music and imperial competition during the early Cold War, 1945–1958 by Kiril Tomoff
by Sheila Fitzpatrick •
I am a ‘Sputnik’, born in the year the Soviet satellite launched the Cold War into space. The launching by the Russians of the first artificial Earth satellite on 4 October 1957 seemed to many in the West a threatening symbol of escalating superpower rivalry. And it did unleash extreme military anxiety and triggered what became known as the Space Race. Twelve years later, in the mid-winter of 1969, I remember waking up just before midnight to watch on television as a Saturn V US rocket, wreathed in smoke and flame, inched its way off the ground at Cape Canaveral. It powered mightily against the pull of gravity and triumphed. It was beginning its journey out of Earth’s atmosphere towards the Moon.
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