Cold war : for 45 years the world held its breath
by
 
Isaacs, Jeremy, 1932-

Title
: 
Cold war : for 45 years the world held its breath

Author
: 
Isaacs, Jeremy, 1932-

ISBN
: 
9780593043097

Personal Author
: 
Isaacs, Jeremy, 1932-

Publication Information
: 
London ; Sydney : Bantam Press, 1998.

Physical Description
: 
x, 438 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 28 cm.

Contents
: 
Comrades, 1917-1945 -- Iron Curtain, 1945-1947 -- Marshall Plan, 1947-1952 -- Berlin, 1948-1949 -- Korea, 1949-1953 -- Reds, 1948-1953 -- After Stalin, 1953-1956 -- Sputnik and the Bomb, 1949-1961 -- The Wall, 1958-1963 -- Back Yard: Guatemala and Cuba, 1954-1962 -- Vietnam, 1954-1968 -- MAD, 1961-1972 -- Culture Wars, 1960-1968 -- Detente, 1969-1975 -- Surrogates, 1967-1978 -- Freeze, 1977-1981 -- Reagan, 1981-1984 -- Gorbachev, 1984-1988 -- People Power, 1989 -- Endings, 1990-1991.

Abstract
: 
The Cold War has spawned many interpreters over the years, but this comprehensive, accessible, richly illustrated volume is the first to benefit from the recent openings of Soviet, East European, and Chinese archives. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship and newly uncovered evidence, Sir Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing are able to present for the first time what actually transpired in secret during some of the most crucial and terrifying moments of modern history. Cold War is complete with firsthand and eyewitness accounts by the people who shaped pivotal events, as well as glimpses into the lives of ordinary men and women threatened or safeguarded by those policies.

Subject Term
: 
Cold War.
 
World politics -- 1945-

Geographic Term
: 
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- 1945-1989.
 
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- 1945-1991.

Added Author
: 
Downing, Taylor.


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