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The Cold War and the making of the modern world / Martin J. Walker

By: London: Vintage, 1994Description: xi, 404 pagesContent type:
  • txt
Media type:
  • n
Carrier type:
  • nc
ISBN:
  • 9780099135111
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • D843 .WAL 1994
Contents:
1945: Yalta to the bomb Containment The Cold War goes global and comes home New leaders and lost opportunities Spies in the sky: Sputnik to U-2 The torch has been passed The Cuban missile crisis The weary Titan Defeat in Asia: hope in Europe The death of dťente and the change of the western system The new Cold War Taking the enemy away Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War The year of miracles and its aftermath Superlosers Epilogue: transcending the nation state
Summary: Martin Walker's account of over forty years of global confrontation between the US and Russia is a masterly narrative of the Cold War's twists and turns by a journalist who was a first-hand witness to its close.
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Books Books City Campus Library General Stacks City Campus Library Non-fiction D843.WAL 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Available G19775
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1945: Yalta to the bomb
Containment
The Cold War goes global
and comes home
New leaders and lost opportunities
Spies in the sky: Sputnik to U-2
The torch has been passed
The Cuban missile crisis
The weary Titan
Defeat in Asia: hope in Europe
The death of dťente and the change of the western system
The new Cold War
Taking the enemy away
Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War
The year of miracles and its aftermath
Superlosers
Epilogue: transcending the nation state

Martin Walker's account of over forty years of global confrontation between the US and Russia is a masterly narrative of the Cold War's twists and turns by a journalist who was a first-hand witness to its close.

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