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050 _aD843
_b.WAL 1994
100 _aWalker, Martin
_eauthor
245 _aThe Cold War and the making of the modern world /
_cMartin J. Walker
264 _a London:
_bVintage,
_c 1994
300 _axi, 404 pages
336 _1text
_atxt
_brdacontent
337 _1unmediated
_an
_brdamedia
338 _1volume
_anc
_brdacarrier
505 _a1945: 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 dtÌŒente 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
520 _aMartin 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.
650 _aWorld politics
650 _aCold War
_x Europe
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