The Cold War and the making of the modern world / Martin J. Walker
London: Vintage, 1994Description: xi, 404 pagesContent type:- txt
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- D843 .WAL 1994
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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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