A Cardboard Castle? An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991 (National Security Archive Cold War Readers)
Contributors: Vojtech Mastny (Editor); Malcolm Byrne (Editor)
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: August 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 726
ISBN-13: 9789637326073
Subjects: Modern - 20th Century; History; History - General History; History: World; Eastern Europe - General; Cold War
First sentence: When the Warsaw Pact was founded in 1955 as a counterpart of NATO, Western officials disparaged it as a "cardboard castle."*1