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