Norstad
Subtitle: Cold War NATO Supreme Commander - Airman, Strategist, Diplomat
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780312226701
Subjects: Air Forces; Nato; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Political; Biography & Autobiography / Political; History / Modern / 20th Century; Military; Modern - 20th Century; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; 1907-1988; Air Force; Biography; Generals; Norstad, Lauris,; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; United States; United States.
First sentence: This is the story of Supreme Commander and the institutions for which he served.
Description: This book offers a biography of the most glamorous and powerful NATO Supreme Commander of the Cold War, General Lauris Norstad, as both a "nuclear" general and an "international" general. His primary goal was to keep the Alliance together as he accommodated British and French nuclear ambitions while forestalling the same in West Germany. He also was at the center of the political/military maneuverings over Berlin and the Soviet attempt to blackmail the West into recognizing East Germany, all of which culminated in the building of the infamous "Wall."