a Global History of The Cold War 19451991

This textbook provides a dynamic and concise overview of the Cold War. Offering balanced coverage of the whole era, it takes a firmly global approach, showing how at various times the focus of East-West rivalry shifted to new and surprising venues, from Laos to Katanga, from Nicaragua to Angola.

A major new history of the Cold War that explores the conflict through the minds of the people who lived through it.