Arms, Thomas S. Encyclopedia
of the Cold War: A Comprehensive Reference to the International Power Struggle
that Dominated World Politics for Almost 50 Years. New York: Facts on
File, 1994. Arms, Thomas S. Encyclopedia
of the Cold War: A Comprehensive Reference to the International Power Struggle
that Dominated World Politics for Almost 50 Years. New York: Facts on
File, 1994.
Cohen, FA 73.6, sees Arms' work as "[g]enerally accurate and concise, [but] it has its share of anomalies," as most such works tend to do. This book "may help those in search of capsule biographies or brief accounts of well-known episodes." It is "adequate for its purposes."
For Surveillant 4.4/5, "[t]his comprehensive A-Z reference ... is evenly handled with numerous intelligence-related references. Highly recommended."
DeConde, Alexander,
ed. Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Studies of the Principal
Movements and Ideas. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1978.
See Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Jr., "Intelligence and Counterintelligence," vol. 1, pp. 417- 427.
Langman, Larry, and
David Ebner. Encyclopedia of American Spy Films. New York: Garland,
1991.
Booth, I&NS 7.3, gives this effort good marks. He finds the descriptions of the films "judgmental without being prejudicial" and the topical entries "balanced and informative." This is "a valuable and useful addition to the standard works in the field."
Parrish, Thomas. The
Cold War Encyclopedia. New York: Holt, 1996.
Surveillant 4.4/5 believes that Thomas S. Arms, Encyclopedia of the Cold War (New York: Facts on File, 1994), is the better of the two books. Nevertheless, "Parrish has an excellent chronology beginning with the 1917 Russian Revolution, and starts his work with a good historiographical essay."
Resch, John P., ed. Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront. 4 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
See J. Ransom Clark, "CIA and Espionage," In Volume 4: 1946-Present, 26-28.
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