The Cold War /
by Friedman, Norman.
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BookPublisher: London : Andre Deutsch, 2019Description: 160 pages : illustration (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780233005713 (hbk.) :; 0233005714 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 909.825 FRISubject(s): Cold War | History | History | Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- Europe | Europe -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation)Summary: As present-day political and military hostilities between Russia and the West threaten to escalate, 'The Cold War' looks back at a global drama that positioned the world on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. Published 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism in Europe that led to the end of the Cold War, it is a graphic account of a confrontation that encompassed moments of high tension, such as the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the nuclear alerts of 1973 and 1983.
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| 909.82 HIG Stranger than we can imagine: making sense of the twentieth century | 909.821 BRE The Spanish flu epidemic and its influence on history / | 909.822 MAL Bright young things: | 909.825 FRI The Cold War / | 909.825 JOH Brief lives | 909.825 LON The picnic : an escape to freedom and the collapse of the Iron Curtain / | 909.826 KUR 1968: the year that rocked the world |
Includes index.
As present-day political and military hostilities between Russia and the West threaten to escalate, 'The Cold War' looks back at a global drama that positioned the world on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. Published 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism in Europe that led to the end of the Cold War, it is a graphic account of a confrontation that encompassed moments of high tension, such as the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the nuclear alerts of 1973 and 1983.
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