History of War: Book of the Cold War (4th Ed) - January 2020 (gnv64)

History of War: Book of the Cold War (4th Ed) - January 2020
English | 148 pages | PDF | 140 mb

Over a period of decades, from the close of the Second World War to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Cold War came to define the latter half of the 20th century. A conflict unlike any that had come before it, the Cold War's battlegrounds were as much in the hearts and minds of citizens around the world as they were in the myriad combat zones that stretched from Vietnam to Cuba. The warring ideologies of the West and the East, led by their respective superpowers, brought the world to the brink of total annihilation on more than one occasion, and gave rise to some of the most iconic political figures in world history. In the History of War Book of the Cold War we explore the most fascinating events of this iconic conflict, from the origins of the Iron Curtain, to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Delve into the Cold War like never before, through stunning photography, expert commentary and eyewitness accounts.

CONTENTS

8 Key events of the Cold War
COLD WAR ORIGINS
16 Russia's ultimate tyrant: Stalin
24 Seeds of the Cold War
32 Key player: Harry S Truman

A WAR FOR HEARTS & MINDS
38 The opening exchanges
46 Key player: Nikita Khrushchev
50 Life in the shadow of the Cold War
56 How the Cold War was fought
62 The race to outer space
66 The U-2 incident
68 Key player: Dwight D Eisenhower

CRISES & CONFLICTS
72 Vietnam
82 Key player: John F Kennedy
86 13 days of Armageddon
94 Key player: Che Guevara
98 A third world war
104 The Sino-Soviet split
110 Ultimate Cold War weapons
118 The thaw of detente

END OF AN ERA
126 Thatcher & Reagan: A political love affair
132 Eyewitness: Fall of the Berlin Wall
136 The Cold War wanes