Cold war
Subtitle: for 45 years the world held its breath
By: Jeremy Issacs and Taylor Downing.
Contributors: Downing, Taylor.
Publisher: Bantam; BANTAM PRESS
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
Subjects: Cold War -- Social aspects.; Cold War.; Cold War.; World politics -- 1945-1989; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- 1945-1991.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- 1945-1989.
Notes: "This book has its origins in a television series, also called Cold War, commissioned by Ted Turner"--p. ix.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-425) and index.
Table of contents: title: Comrades, 1917-1945; title: Iron curtain, 1945-1947; title: Marshall Plan, 1947-1952; title: Berlin, 1948-1949; title: Korea, 1949-1953; title: Reds, 1948-1953; title: Cold War films; title: After Stalin, 1953-1956; title: Sputnik and the bomb, 1949-1961; title: The wall, 1958-1963; title: Back yard : Guatemala and Cuba, 1954-1962; title: Vietnam, 1954-1968; title: MAD, 1961-1972; title: Culture wars, 1960-1968; title: Cold War literature; title: Détente, 1969-1975; title: Surrogates, 1967-1978; title: Freeze, 1977-1981; title: Reagan, 1981-1984; title: Cold War spies; title: Gorbachev, 1984-1988; title: People power, 1989; title: Endings, 1990-1991.