Bibliograph

Cold war, an illustrated history, 1945-1991, Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing

Type

Label

Cold war, an illustrated history, 1945-1991, Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-425) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cold war

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

38024183

Responsibility statement

Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing

Sub title

an illustrated history, 1945-1991

Summary

Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship and newly uncovered evidence, this book discusses cold war politics, superpower confrontations, and the threat of nuclear disaster that engulfed the world from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union

Table Of Contents

Comrades, 1917-1945 -- Iron Curtain, 1945-1947 -- Marshall Plan, 1947-1952 -- Berlin, 1948-1949 -- Korea, 1949-1953 -- Reds, 1948-1953 -- After Stalin, 1953-1956 -- Sputnik and the Bomb, 1949-1961 -- The wall, 1958-1963 -- Back yard : Guatemala and Cuba, 1954-1962 -- Vietnam, 1954-1968 -- MAD, 1961-1972 -- Culture wars, 1960-1968 -- Detente, 1969-1975 -- Surrogates, 1967-1978 -- Freeze, 1977-1981 -- Reagan, 1981-1984 -- Gorbachev, 1984-1988 -- People power, 1989 -- Endings, 1990-1991

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Contributor