Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance - Couverture souple
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A history of NATO, the intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states, from WW2 to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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À propos de l?auteur
Peter Apps is global defence commentator at Reuters, a British Army reservist and executive director of pop-up think tank the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21). Peter has reported from across the world as a Reuters correspondent and was appointed a columnist in 2016. He has also served in the British Army as a specialist reservist, and presents the international defence podcast Facing Coming Storms for the British Army think tank The Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research (CHACR).
He is the author of Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO (Wildfire, 2024) and two successful Kindle Singles, Before Ebola (2014) and Churchill in the Trenches (2015).
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The history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
After World War II, the West's democracies banded together to avoid a catastrophic global atomic conflict. Over the 75 years since, NATO has also become a major political, strategic and diplomatic player, while facing down Kremlin foes from Stalin to Putin. Deterring Armageddon takes the reader from backroom deals that led to NATO's creation, through the Cold War, the Balkans and Afghanistan to the invasion of Ukraine.
It is a tale of tension, danger, rivalry, conflict, big personalities and high-stakes military and diplomatic posturing - as well as espionage, politics and protest. From the Korean War to the pandemic, the Berlin and Cuba crises to the chaotic evacuation from Kabul, Deterring Armageddon tells how the alliance has shaped and been shaped by history - and looks ahead to what might be the most dangerous era it has ever faced.
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