The Cardinal of the Kremlin

The Cardinal of the Kremlin: The United States and USSR race to develop Star Wars technology against a global background. Jack Ryan is in there pitching for America, and so is the “cardinal” of the title, an American mole. A world war is averted. Everybody wins. Clear and Present Danger: The White House, sick and tired of drug use here, launches

Throughout the years, many authors have contributed to American literature by writing meaningful poems and novels about their past. However, one of these great authors rose up through his military and espionage-styled novels, changing and refining those genres forever; that author’s name is Tom Clancy. According to Italie, since childhood, young Tom Clancy has always been interested in the military and its history (Italie). He became a famous author that influenced many writers that writes the same

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The Historiography of the Origins of the Cold War There have been many attempts to explain the origins of the Cold War that developed between the capitalist West and the communist East after the Second World War. Indeed, there is great disagreement in explaining the source for the Cold War; some explanations draw on events pre-1945; some draw only on issues of ideology; others look to economics; security concerns dominate some arguments; personalities are seen as the root cause for some historians

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