Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Carla is travelling with her estranged father in an attempt to rebuild their relationship Soon after arriving in East Berlin Carla begins to suffer from strange sensations & mental lapses remembering events from World War II that she cannot have experienced herself Actors George Segal Amanda Pays Language English Number of discs 1 ...

A brilliantly arresting historical work John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction In 1945 war came to an end But a whole new terror was only just beginning Here is the truth behind every spy thriller you've read why America & the Soviet Union became locked in a deadly stalemate; how close we came to nuclear catastrophe; what was really going on in the minds of leaders from Stalin to Mao Zedong Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev how secret agents plotted & East German holidaymakers helped the Berlin Wall fall It is a story of crisis talks & subterfuge tyrants & power struggles
- & of ordinary people changing the course of history ' Gripping' Len Deighton ' Superb brimful of racy incident' Independent on Sunday 'A lively & readable history' The Times ' Force 9 on the Richter scale' Spectator John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A Lovett Professor of History at Yale University & 'the dean of cold war historians' (The New York Times) He is the author of numerous books including Security & the American Experience the book recently pressed on his cabinet & senior security staff by President Bush
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' Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition supra-nationalist intellect polyglot sources masterly scholarship & trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines TLS Books of the Year As Germany & then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new & much better world could be created from the moral & physical ruins of the conflict Instead the combination of the huge power of the USA & USSR & the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique grim new environment the Cold War For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us There was no part of the world where East & West did not ultimately demand a blind & absolute allegiance & nowhere into which the West & East did not reach Countries as remote from each other as Korea Angola & Cuba were defined by their allegiances Almost all civil wars became proxy conflicts for the superpowers Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely Arne Westad's remarkable new book is the first to have the distance from these events & the ambition to create a convincing powerful narrative of the Cold War The book is genuinely global in its reach & captures the dramas & agonies of a period always overshadowed by the horror of nuclear war & which for millions of people was not 'cold' at all a time of relentless violence squandered opportunities & moral failure This is a book of extraordinary scope & daring It is conventional to see the first half of the 20th century as a nightmare & the second half as a reprieve Westad shows that for much of the world the second half was by most measures even worse ...

This comprehensive collection of carefully edited documents--speeches treaties statements & articles--traces the rise & fall of the Cold War The sources follow the Cold War from its roots in East-West tensions at the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Set in historical context by the editors' concise introductions & followed by thoughtful discussion questions the documents are arranged in chronological order starting with the Yalta Conference & ending with Gorbachev's resignation speech Drawing on selections from a variety of countries & leaders involved in this prolonged global struggle the editors treat the entire Cold War as an era in world history not just US history Their judicious selection makes the great events of the time come alive through the words & phrases of those who were actively involved ...

The massive disorder & economic ruin following the Second World War inevitably predetermined the scope & intensity of the Cold War But why did it last so long? & what impact did it have on the United States the Soviet Union Europe & the Third World? Finally how did it affect the broader history of the second half of the twentieth century
- what were the human & financial costs? This Very Short Introduction provides a clear & stimulating interpretive overview of the Cold War one that will both invite debate & encourage deeper investigation ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable
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EIGHT YEARS BEFORE "THE COLDEST CITY" BERLIN FROZE Bestselling author ANTONY JOHNSTON returns to The Coldest City for a tale even more complexcompelling & cold than the first! After a string of botched assignments for MI6 in Berlin David Perceval is being sent home Even his final mission before leaving — the defection of a Soviet scientist — goes badly wrong as the coldest winter for 30 years descends on Europe With transport out of Berlin impossible & the KGB searching everywhere for their lost scientist Perceval must improvise a deadly game of cat & mouse through the frozen city to keep the Russians at bay & deliver his own unique brand of revenge! ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play One German maximum security prison was more famous than any other during World War II
- Colditz castle Although Colditz was considered &escape proof& its boundaries were challenged many times by Allied prisoners of war with fatal results On 15 October 1942 a group of British servicemen made the most historic & perhaps the most courageous attempt of all Actors John Mills Eric Portman Christopher Rhodes Lionel Jeffries Bryan Forbes Ian Carmichael & Richard Wattis Director Guy Hamilton Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1955 Screen Widescreen 169 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Duration 1 hour & 31 minutes (approx)

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Colditz Story is an outstanding factual prisoner of war film directed by Guy Hamilton starring John Mills (Ice Cold in Alex) as Officer Pat Reid & Eric Portman (The 49th Parallel) as Colonel Richmond It is based on the book written by Pat Reid a British army officer who was imprisoned in Oflag IV-C Colditz Castle in Germany during the Second World War & who was the Escape Officer for British POWs within the castle Colditz Castle in the heart of Saxony was the fortress to which the German High Command sent officers who had attempted to escape from conventional prison camps They regarded it as impregnable yet they threatened the death penalty for anyone attempting to break out British officer Pat Reid leads an escape through one of the castle’s subterranean tunnels Only three of the prisoners survive; the next step is to get out of Germany itself Special Features• New & exclusive 53 min documentary – Colditz Revealed Life Inside the Colditz Castle• Restoration comparison ...

' With flashes of brilliance tenderness & fury Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator does what fiction should It makes you listen' Arundhati Roy author of The God of Small Things By the waters running through the valleys of Kashmir teenage boys come to play cricket talk about girls & just be But a few years later when they are young men & violence grips the region they are gone Only the son of the local headman has stayed He knows his friends have slipped over the border to Pakistan & turned militant to bear arms against the Indian army He would like to join them
- but he cannot Instead put in an impossible position by an Indian army Captain he must cross into the shadowland between the opposing sides a ghost walking among the dead His fate like that of his lost brothers unknown ' Waheed's prose burns with the fever of anger & despair; the scenes in the valley are exceptional conveying a hallucinatory living nightmare that has become an everyday reality for Kashmiris' Metro' Waheed builds an atmosphere of menace & despair his tale possesses a disturbing power that is both lingering & profound' Independent on Sunday' Compelling An important & poetic testimony to an all-too-easily forgotten war' Daily Mail Mirza Waheed was born & brought up in Kashmir His debut novel The Collaborator was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award & the Shakti Bhat Prize & longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize It was also book of the year for the Telegraph New Statesman Financial Times Business Standard & Telegraph India Waheed has written for the BBC the Guardian Granta Al Jazeera English & The New York Times He lives in London
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