A graphic account of this long-running global drama, The Compact Guide: The Cold War is published in a new era of fear and uncertainty. It encompasses 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. At several times the world stood on the brink of nuclear Armageddon, but these dangerous moments all ended with both sides drawing back, until the long confrontation ended peacefully.
Written by a leading American defence analyst, Dr Norman Friedman, The Compact Guide: The Cold War is supplemented with 60 photographs and documents that allow the reader to witness the events as they unfolded. Maps, diaries, letters and other items which, up till now, have remained filed or exhibited in the Imperial War Museum and other museum collections in Northern Europe and America include a 1963 nuclear attack protective booklet produced for homeowners by the British government and the official pack for US troops passing through Checkpoint Charlie, with practical advice on visiting Communist-controlled East Berlin.
By:
Norman Friedman
Imprint: Andre Deutsch
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: With flaps
Dimensions:
Height: 196mm,
Width: 126mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 160g
ISBN: 9780233005911
ISBN 10: 0233005919
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 02 June 2020
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
A Failed Peace The Iron Curtain The Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO The Berlin Airlift China and De-Colonization McCarthyism Korea: The Cold War Becomes a Military Struggle Why The War Never Became Hot: The Bomb Explosions in Europe: Poland & the GDR Uprising Explosions in Europe: The Hungarian Uprising Secret Services: East Secret Services: West Missiles, Sputnik, and the H-Bomb Cuba: Bay of Pigs The Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam The Prague Spring Detente: The Peak of Soviet Power Afghanistan Dissidents Poland President Reagan's Offensive Living with the Bomb Gorbachev: A Man to Do Business With The Wall Comes Down Revolutions in Eastern Europe Fall of the Soviet Union.
Dr Norman Friedman is an American defence analyst and former Deputy Director of National Security Studies of the Hudson Institute, from 1973-1984. Dr. Friedman has published 29 books, including a history of the Cold War, The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War, which won the 2001 Westminster Prize for the best English-language military book of 2000, awarded by the Royal United Services Institute.
