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The Cold War : a history
- Title
- The Cold War : a history / Martin Walker.
- Author
- Walker, Martin, 1947 January 23-
- Publication
- New York : H. Holt, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | D842 .W28 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 401 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- The history of the Cold War is the history of the world since 1945. Now that we think it is over, we have to make sense of what the Cold War was, how it shaped us, and the uncertain new world that lies ahead. In [this book, the author] explains how the United States became the "security state."
- Subject
- Note
- "An Owl book."
- "A John Macrae book."
- Originally published: London : Fourth Estate, 1993.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-387) and index.
- Contents
- 1945, Yalta to the bomb -- \Containment -- \Cold War goes global, and comes home -- \New leaders and lost opportunities -- \Spies in the sky, sputnik to U-2 -- \Torch has been passed -- \Cuban Missile Crisis -- \Weary Titan -- \Defeat in Asia, hope in Europe -- \Death of Detente and the change of the Western system -- \New Cold War -- \Taking the enemy away, Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War -- \Year of Miracles and its aftermath.
- ISBN
- 0805034544
- 9780805034547
- LCCN
- 99979470702
- 99979009998
- OCLC
- ocm33019934
- 33019934
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries