Cardboard Castle?
Subtitle: An Inside History Of The Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991
Contributors: Vojtech Mastny (Editor); Malcolm Byrne (Editor); Magdalena Klotzbach (Editor)
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 726
ISBN-13: 9789637326080
Subjects: International relations; Treaties & other sources of international law; Politics/International Relations; History; Cold War; Warsaw Treaty Organization; Political Science; History - General History; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); History & Theory - General; Eastern Europe - General; Sources; Europe, Eastern; History, Military
First sentence: When the Warsaw Pact was founded in 1955 as a counterpart of NATO, Western officials disparaged it as a "cardboard castle."*1