The Atlantic and Its Enemies
A History of the Cold War
Penguin
Paperback
: 25 Aug 2011
£14.99
Synopsis
Those who survived the Second World War stared out onto a devastated, morally ruined world. Much of Europe and Asia had been so ravaged that it was unclear whether any form of normal life could ever be established again.
Everywhere the 'Atlantic' world (the USA, Britain and a handful of allies) was on the defensive and its enemies on the move. For every Atlantic success there seemed to be a dozen Communist or 'Third World' successes, as the USSR and its proxies crushed dissent and humiliated the United States on both military and cultural grounds. For all the astonishing productivity of the American, Japanese and mainland western European economies (setting aside the fiasco of Britain's implosion), most of the world was either under Communist rule or lost in a violent stagnancy that seemed doomed to permanence. Then, suddenly, the Atlantic won - economically, ideologically, militarily - with astonishing speed and completeness.
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780141044637
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 688
Published : 25 Aug 2011
Publisher : Penguin
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A History of the Cold War
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