The Cold War
Subtitle: a military history
By: edited by Robert Cowley.
Contributors: Cowley, Robert.
Edition: Random House Trade Paperback ed.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780812967166
Subjects: Cold War; Military history -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. FIRST SKIRMISHES. The day the Cold War started / James Chace; title: Cloak-and-dagger in Salzburg / Harris Greene; title: The great rescue / David Clay Large; title: The incident at Lang Fang / Eugene B. Sledge; title: The escape of the amethyst / Simon Winchester; title: II. POLICE ACTION. The United States, the U.N., and Korea / James Chace and Caleb Carr; title: Truman fires MacArthur / David McCullough; title: The man who saved Korea / Thomas Fleming; title: The first jet war / Dennis E. Showalter; title: "Murderers of Koje-do!" / Lawrence Malkin; title: Strategic views: the meaning of Panmunjom / Robert Cowley; title: III. THE DEEP COLD WAR. The truth about overflights / R. Cargill Hall; title: The Berlin tunnel / George Fiefer; title: The invasion of Cuba / Dino A. Brugioni; title: Twilight zone in the Pentagon / Thomas B. Allen; title: The right man / Victor Davis Hanson; title: IV. VIETNAM: THE LONG GOOD-BYE. Calamity on the R.C. 4 / Douglas Porch; title: Dien Bien Phu / Williamson Murray; title: The general at ease: an interview with William C. Westmoreland / Laura Palmer; title: The mystery of Khe Sanh / James Warren; title: The evacuation of Kham Duc / Ronald H. Spector; title: MIA / Marilyn Elkins; title: "That's ocay XX time is on our side" / Geoffrey Norman; title: The Christmas bombing / Stephen E. Ambrose; title: V. THE END. The ICBM and the Cold War: technology in the driver's seat / John F. Guilmartin, Jr.; title: The war scare of 1983 / John Prados; title: There goes Brussels / Williamson Murray.