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12941) Nazi secrets revealed
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Hitler's lost sub: America had just entered World War II, but terrifying unseen weapons were stalking US targets, sinking over 400 ships just miles from American shores in the worst naval defeat in United States History. Hitler's sunken secret: One of the most daring resistance operations of World War II was the 1944 sinking of the Norwegian ferry Hydro, with its cargo of "heavy water" destined for the Nazi's secret atomic bomb project.
The great...
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Series
Special report volume 327
Publisher
United States Institute of Peace
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Series
Special report volume 89
Publisher
U.S. Institute of Peace
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Author
Series
Special report volume 379
Publisher
United States Institute of Peace
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
Peaceworks volume no. 155
Publisher
United States Institute of Peace
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Government Institutes
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Since 9/11, the threat of terrorism has concerned Americans more than any other issue they face. Author Greg Reeson says this is not likely to change in the near future. In Stalemate, he argues that we are waging an unwinnable war against terrorism--that Muslim extremist ideology is a problem we can manage, but not soon solve. This conflict with terrorism will not end in victory or defeat, at least not in the traditional sense. The 9/11 attacks ushered...
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Series
Special report volume No. 498
Publisher
United States Institute of Peace
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the loss of the Islamic State's territorial holdings, the return of foreign fighters and their families to their home countries is a top international concern. Among the short list of governments that have initiated repatriation programs, the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan stand out. This report examines the different approaches the three countries have taken and draws important lessons for other nations...
12955) Smoking typewriters: the Sixties underground press and the rise of alternative media in America
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people--many of them affluent and college educated--to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions can be found in the emergence of a dynamic underground press in the 1960s. Following the lead of papers like the Los Angeles Free Press, the East Village...
Author
Series
Peace brief volume 82
Publisher
United States Institute of Peace
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English