Cold War: For Forty-five Years the World Held its Breath

Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, military and ideological, between two great powers that dominated the world during these years. It is a story of crises and conflict on a global scale: from the Berlin Blockade and the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the tanks in the streets of Warsaw, Budapest and Prague, to spies, student riots and encounters in space.
In Cold War, Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing record epic history through the detail of individual human experience: the recollections not only of statesmen whose decisions led to these momentous events, but also of the ordinary men and women whose lives were bound up in these years of conflict. Cold War is the first comprehensive history for the general reader to benefit from the recent opening of Soviet, East European and Chinese archives as well as formerly classified American documents. In a driving narrative that it both gripping and informative, the true story of the Cold War can at last be told.

Title - Cold War: For Forty-five Years the World Held its Breath

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Author - Taylor Downing,Jeremy Isaacs

ISBN 13 - 9780349120805

Imprint - Abacus

Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group

Date Published - 07/08/2008

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 128 x 196 x 35mm

Weight - 376 g

Languages - English