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Hell's Fire: A Documentary History of the American Atomic and Thermonuclear Weapons Projects, from Hiroshima to the Cold War and the War on Terror    by Lenny  Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 140350 words. Published on September 8, 2009. .
A history of nuclear weapons, from the Manhattan Project which built the atomic bomb, to the "Mike" test which paved the way for the hydrogen bomb, to the "war on terror" which seeks an entire new generation of "earth-penetrating" nuclear bombs.
Rise and Fall of the Leninist State: A Marxist History of the Soviet Union    by Lenny  Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 35210 words. Published on September 8, 2009. .
An economic history of the Soviet Union, from its inception in 1917 to its demise in 1991. It is in the economics of the Leninist state, not its politics or ideology, that we find the seeds of its destruction. By examining the economics of the USSR, we can see not only why the Russian Revolution took the course that it did, but why it could not have taken any other path.
Los guerreros de la libertad    by Ernesto Panama
Price: $6.00 USD. 64860 words. Published by Ernesto Panamá  on September 21, 2009. .
Historia de El Salvador 1932-2008 Primer relato histórico desde un punto de diferente a lo antes escrito. Resulta profético al anunciar la derrota de ARENA.Genero testimonial y analítico,relata hechos inéditos,de nuestra realidad. El contenido es de fácil lectura, mantiene al lector en la trama. Esta es la 2a. Edición.
Non-Leninist Marxism: Writings on the Workers Councils    by Lenny  Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 57350 words. Published on September 29, 2009. .
The recent collapse of the Soviet Union made clear the weaknesses and deficiencies in Leninist theory and practice. In the period between the World Wars, however, an entirely different trend of socialism had rejected the Leninist model of centralized party and state. This movement was "council communism".
Writings of Karl Radek: The "Left Opposition" in Soviet Russia    by Lenny  Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 61480 words. Published on November 21, 2009. .
A collection of essays and pamphlets from Karl Radek, the Russian Communist who became a leader in the "Left Opposition" faction within the Bolshevik Party, advocating party democracy and a greater role for the rank-and-file trade unions in the Soviet state.
Putin's Russia    by Sam Vaknin
Price: Free! 34470 words. Published on January 3, 2010. .
Russia's economy and politics under President Vladimir Putin.
The Great Communicator: Selected Speeches from President Ronald Reagan    by Lenny  Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 143780 words. Published on January 16, 2010. .
A selection of speeches from Ronald Reagan. The conservative "Reagan Revolution", of free-market economics, the Religious Right, and military power, dominated American politics for three decades. This volume includes the "Evil Empire" speech, the "Government is the problem" speech, the "Tear down this Wall" speech, and many others.
Soviet 'Cold War' Aviation    by peter dancey 
Price: $2.99 USD. 11440 words. Published on October 10, 2010. .
Another in the series on the history of Soviet Aviation. This book deals specifically with the OKB, Gaz and Zavods and how they adapted from their WW II experience under Jospeh Stalin, the Cold War period with its peaks and troughs of new types both civil and military the era of auterity and under the CIS the virtual extinction of Soviet Aviation and the AF until rescued by Putins 2000 proposals.
White Eagle: Jim Colling Adventure Series IV    by Robert McCurdy
Price: $2.99 USD. 90420 words. Published by Elderberry Press, Inc.  on November 6, 2010. .
It is 1951, and the Korean War is in its second year. Called back to active duty, Jim Colling accepts the offer of a direct commission, with assignment to Signal Corps intelligence in Europe. On arriving in Germany, he discovers that he will be working for the CIA, his first assignment, to enter Soviet-occupied Poland and rescue the wife and children of a Polish officer turned informant.
Listening for Leviathan    by Mary Jo Kelly Wilhelm
Price: $9.99 USD. 63630 words. Published on January 27, 2011. .
Listening for Leviathan is the biography of Captain Joseph Paul Kelly, USNR, the US Navy's Father of Project Caesar and SOSUS. During the Cold War, Captain Joe Kelly headed the anti-submarine project that secretly tracked Soviet submarines during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Later, SOSUS discovered the causes of the destruction of the two US nuclear submarines Thresher and Scorpion.

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