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

Isaacs, Jeremy; Downing, Taylor

 
9780349120805: Cold War: For Forty-five Years the World Held its Breath
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0349120803 ISBN 13 : 9780349120805
Editeur : Abacus, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Taylor Downing is a writer, historian and award-winning television producer. He read History at Cambridge University and worked at the Imperial War Museum and Thames Television before going on to become managing director and head of history at Flashback Television, a leading independent production company. His books include the bestselling Cold War (with Jeremy Isaacs), 1983, Breakdown, Secret Warriors, Night Raid, The World at War, Olympia, Spies in the Sky and Churchill's War Lab.

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Éditeur
Abacus
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0349120803
ISBN 13 
9780349120805
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
560
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Hachette Ireland
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