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Cold War: For Forty-five Years the World Held Its Breath Book

Beautifully designed and illustrated with hundreds of photographs, this companion volume to the CNN documentary series begins with the roots of the Cold War: the military intervention by six nations (including the United States) in the Bolsheviks' 1917 Russian Revolution. The book then takes on the Cold War proper, from the post-World War II rise of the Iron Curtain to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet government in the early 1990s. "For forty-five years," the authors write, "the peoples of the world held their breath," through missile crises, policies of "mutual assured destruction," the Vietnam War, and the uneasy steps toward détente and full peace highlighted by Richard Nixon's meetings with Leonid Brezhnev and by Mikhail Gorbachev's meetings with Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Special sections highlight the role of spies in the Cold War, as well as the films and literature of the era. This is a copiously detailed account of the major historical force of the latter half of the 20th century that would make an excellent reference book for any household.Read More

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  • Amazon

    A comprehensive and accessible account of a crucial period in recent world history Originally published as a tie-in to the critically acclaimed CNN and BBC series

  • TheBookPeople

    Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, military and ideological, between two great powers that dominated the world during these years. It is a story of crises and conflict on a global scale: from the Berlin Blockade and the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the tanks in the streets of Warsaw, Budapest and Prague, to spies, student riots and encounters in space. In Cold War, Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing record epic history through the detail of individual human experience: the recollections not only of statesmen whose decisions led to these momentous events, but also of the ordinary men and women whose lives were bound up in these years of conflict. Cold War is the first comprehensive history for the general reader to benefit from the recent opening of Soviet, East European and Chinese archives as well as formerly classified American documents. In a driving narrative that it both gripping and informative, the true story of the Cold War can at last be told.

  • BookDepository

    Cold War : Paperback : Little, Brown Book Group : 9780349120805 : 0349120803 : 07 Aug 2008 : *A comprehensive and accessible account of a crucial period in recent world history *Originally published as a tie-in to the critically acclaimed CNN and BBC series

  • Blackwell

    *A comprehensive and accessible account of a crucial period in recent world history *Originally published as a tie-in to the critically acclaimed CNN and BBC series Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War ...

  • Pickabook

    Jeremy Isaacs, Taylor Downing

  • 0349120803
  • 9780349120805
  • Jeremy Isaacs, Taylor Downing
  • 7 August 2008
  • Abacus
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 560
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