Walker, Martin <br/><br/>
The Cold War and the making of the modern world / 
Martin J. Walker 
 - xi, 404 pages 
<br/><br/>1945: Yalta to the bomb<br/>Containment<br/>The Cold War goes global<br/>and comes home<br/>New leaders and lost opportunities<br/>Spies in the sky: Sputnik to U-2<br/>The torch has been passed<br/>The Cuban missile crisis<br/>The weary Titan<br/>Defeat in Asia: hope in Europe<br/>The death of dťente and the change of the western system<br/>The new Cold War<br/>Taking the enemy away<br/>Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War<br/>The year of miracles and its aftermath<br/>Superlosers<br/>Epilogue: transcending the nation state 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780099135111 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World politics<br/>Cold War-- Europe
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D843  / .WAL 1994