Kamis, 15 Februari 2018

Book Review: Adriatic Intrigue

Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War, by Christian Jennings, ForeEdge, Lebanon, N.H., 2017, $29.95 The term “Cold War” inevitably conjures gray, grainy images of the 1950s, when the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union was in full flight. But in his new book British writer and former …

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