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Author:

Isaacs, Jeremy, 1932-

Title:

Cold war : for 45 years the world held its breath / Jeremy Issacs and Taylor Downing.

Publisher:

Bantam,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

x, 438 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Cold war.
World politics--1945-

Other Authors:

Downing, Taylor.

Notes:

"This book has its origins in a television series, also called Cold War, commissioned by Ted Turner"--p. ix. Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-425) and index.

Contents:

Comrades, 1917-1945 -- Iron curtain, 1945-1947 -- Marshall Plan, 1947-1952 -- Berlin, 1948-1949 -- Korea, 1949-1953 -- Reds, 1948-1953 -- Cold War films -- 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 -- Cold War literature -- Détente, 1969-1975 -- Surrogates, 1967-1978 -- Freeze, 1977-1981 -- Reagan, 1981-1984 -- Cold War spies -- Gorbachev, 1984-1988 -- People power, 1989 -- Endings, 1990-1991.

ISBN:

9780593043097
059304309X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40298710

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)