The Fifty-Year War
Subtitle: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War
By: Norman Friedman.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 597
Subjects: Cold War; World politics -- 1945-; Strategy
Description: "To read a comprehensive history of the technical, military and political aspects of the Cold War, based on documents from the two super-powers, written by a scholar who is free of bias, is something I never thought I would be able to do. But in The Fifty-Year War I can. . . . For the men and women who are going to lead the world in the first generation of the Twenty-First Century, this account of how the Cold War was fought and won is indispensable. For those of us who lived through it. . . . Friedman's account is enthralling. Having spent much of my life reading about, studying, worrying about, participating in the Cold War, I thought there was nothing new for me to learn about it. Boy was I wrong. Read The Fifty-Year War and see why." -- Stephen Ambrose
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-576) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; label: Part One
title: / Setting the Stage; label: 1
title: War and Communism; label: 2
title: Stalin's Soviet Union; label: 3
title: The West in 1945; label: 4
title: The Nuclear Revolution in Warfare; label: Part Two
title: / Outbreak; label: 5
title: Initial Probes; label: 6
title: Open War; label: 7
title: The Marshall Plan and NATO; label: 8
title: Tito and Mao; label: 9
title: Rising Nationalism; label: 10
title: Stalin's Military Buildup; label: 11
title: Countering Stalin's Hordes; label: Part Three
title: / Crises in a Nuclear World; label: 12
title: Living with Btalin's Bomb: NSC 68; label: 13
title: The "Super"; label: 14
title: Crisis in the East; label: 15
title: Defending Europe; label: 16
title: Crisis: Indochina; label: 17
title: Enter Khrushchev; label: 18
title: The "New Look"; label: 19
title: Khrushchev's "New Look"; label: 20
title: Disaster via the Middle East; label: Part Four
title: / Stalemate; label: 21
title: The Missile Race; label: 22
title: Crisis Time; label: 23
title: Kennedy and "Wars of National Liberation"; label: 24
title: Crises in Europe and Cuba; label: 25
title: The McNamara Broom; label: 26
title: De Gaulle vs. NATO; label: Part Five
title: / The West on the Defensive; label: 27
title: The Brezhnev Coup; label: 28
title: Vietnam; label: 29
title: Disaster; label: 30
title: Repression; label: 31
title: Peace without Victory; label: 32
title: Brezhnev's Buildups; label: 33
title: Detente and Discontent; label: 34
title: The West at Bay; label: 35
title: Nadir; label: Part Six
title: / Counterattack and Victory; label: 36
title: The Computer Bomb; label: 37
title: Counterattack: The West Rearms; label: 38
title: Unexpected Victory; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index