The cold war as we know it today – the ideological struggle between east and west, between communism and capitalism – did not officially start until after the second world war.
However, intense espionage activities began well before the end of world war ii and persisted throughout, especially as each side tried to deduce the other’s likely actions after the defeat of nazi germany and the empire of japan.
With the allied victory, the spy game merely intensified, with both sides deploying spy networks and agents to steal state secrets, ferment discord and influence events in each other’s country.
Inside you will read about...
•America in the antebellum era
•Secession and the first shots
•Early battles and the turning point: april 1861-july 1863
•The united states and the confederacy
•Women and blacks in the war
•Reconstruction
•The legacy of the civil war
When native americans first witnessed those white sails bringing ships with white sailors into their world for the first time, they could never have dreamed that within a few centuries their population would be all but destroyed, that they would have to endure massacre after massacre, be stripped of their freedom and confined to comparatively tiny reservations, and walk the trail of tears within the next few hundred years.
