Stupid Wars : A Citizen's Guide to Botched Putsches, Failed Coups, Inane Invasions, and Ridiculous R

Jones, Nigel. The Birth of the Nazis: How the Freikorps Blazed a Trail for Hitler. Carroll and Graf, 2004.

Read, Anthony. The Devil’s Disciples: Hitler’s Inner Circle. Norton, 2003.

Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Simon and Schuster, 1960.

CHAPTER 8

Farcau, Bruce W. The Chaco War: Bolivia and Paraguay, 1932–1935. Praeger Publishers, 1996.

Hughes, Matthew. “Logistics and the Chaco War: Bolivia versus Paraguay, 1932–1935.” Journal of Military History (April 2005): 411–37.

Klein, Herbert S. Parties and Political Change in Bolivia 1880–1952. Cambridge University Press, 1969.

Time archives.

von Schey, Lida. Estigarribia and the Chaco War. University of St. An­drews, 1984.

Zook, David H. Jr., The Conduct of the Chaco War. Bookman Associates, 1960.

CHAPTER 9

Engle, Eloise, and Lauri Paananen. The Winter War: The Russo-Finnish Conflict, 1939– 40. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973.

Jakobson, Max. The Diplomacy of the Winter War. Harvard University Press, 1961.

Khrushchev, Nikita. Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev. Edited by Sergei Khrushchev. Penn State University Press, 2004.

Trotter, William R. A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939–1940. Algonquin Books, 1991.

CHAPTER 10

Ambrose, Stephen E. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B–24s over Germany, 1944–1945, Simon and Schuster, 2001.

Axworthy, Mark, Cornel Scafes, and Cristian Craciunoiu. Third Axis, Fourth Ally, Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945. Arms and Armour, 1995.

Filipescu, Mihai T. Reluctant Axis: Romanian Army in Russia, 1941– 1944. FTM, 2006.

Sebastian, Mihail. Journal 1935–1944. Ivan R. Dee Inc., 2000.

Stout, Jay A. Fortress Ploesti: The Campaign to Destroy Hitler’s Oil. Case­mate, 2003.

CHAPTER 11

Brown, Anthony Cave. Bodyguard of Lies. Bantam Books, 1975.

Duffy, James, and Vincent Ricci. Target Hitler. Praeger Publishers, 1992.

Donhof, Marion. Before the Storm. Translated by Jean Steinberg.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Hitler’s Generals. Edited by Correlli Barnett. George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd., 1989.

Moorhouse, Roger. Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dicta­tor Who Cheated Death. Bantam Books, 2006.

CHAPTER 12

Lynch, Grayston L. Decision for Disaster; The Battle of the Bay of Pigs. Pocket Books, 1998.

Pavia, Peter. The Cuba Project: Castro, Kennedy, and the FBI’s Tamale Squad. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr., A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.

Time archives.

Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the Central Intelligence Agency. Doubleday, 2007.

Wyden, Peter. Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story. Simon and Schuster, 1979.

CHAPTER 13

Borovik, Artyom. The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist’s Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.

Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: the Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. Penguin Books, 2004.

Service, Robert. A History of Twentieth-Century Russia. Harvard Univer­sity Press, 1997.

Tamarov, Vladislav. Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier’s Story. Ten Speed Press, 1992.

Tanner, Stephen. Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban. Da Capo Press, 2002.

CHAPTER 14

Anderson, Duncan. The Falklands War, 1982. Osprey Publishing, 2002.

Middlebrook, Martin. The Fight for the Malvinas. Penguin, 1989.

Romero, Luis Alberto. A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.

Sunday Times (London) Insight Team. War in the Falklands: The Full Story. Harper and Row, 1982.

Thatcher, Margaret. The Downing Street Years. HarperCollins, 1993.

Winchester, Simon. Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the Brit­ish Empire. HarperCollins, 2003.

CHAPTER 15

Adkin, Mark. Urgent Fury: The Battle for Grenada. Lexington Books, 1989.

Sandford, Gregory, and Richard Vigilante. Grenada: The Untold Story. Madison Books, 1984.

Time archives.

CHAPTER 16

Burke, Justin. Personal memoir (former Moscow correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor).

Doder, Dusko. Shadows and Whispers. Random House, 1986.

Gorbachev, Mikhail. Memoirs. Doubleday, 1996.

New York Times archives on the Web.

Pozner, Vladimir. Eyewitness. Random House, 1992.

Remnick, David. Lenin’s Tomb. Random House, 1993.

Time archives on the Web.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ED STROSSER and MICHAEL PRINCE met in history class at Boston Uni­versity and have stopped discussing history only long enough to eat and sleep. They both live in New York City.

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