01262 a2200205 4500 0 0 LCC 0 0 NFIC CCL CCL GEN 2022-09-26 Purchase G19775 0 D843.WAL 1993 G19775 2022-09-26 00:00:00 C.1 2022-09-26 BK 10733 10733 9780099135111 D843 .WAL 1994 Walker, Martin author The Cold War and the making of the modern world / Martin J. Walker London: Vintage, 1994 xi, 404 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. World politics Cold War Europe lcc BK 843 WAL D