The term the Cold War has had many meanings and interpretations since it was originally coined and has been used to analyse everything from comics to pro-natalist policies, and science fiction to gender politics. This range has great value, but also poses problems, notably by diluting the focus on war of a certain type, and by exacerbating a lack of precision in definition and analysis. The Cold War: A Military History is the first survey of the period to focus on the diplomatic and military confrontation and conflict.
Jeremy Black begins his overview in 1917 and covers the 'long Cold War', from the 7th November Revolution to the ongoing repercussions and reverberations of the conflict today. The book is forward-looking as well as retrospective, not least in encouraging us to reflect on how much the character of the present world owes to the Cold War. The result is a detailed survey that will be invaluable to students and scholars of military and international history.
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26
THE
COLD
WAR
developments
(unpredictabilities
that
encouraged
espionage)
were
linked
to
more
profound
ideological
and
geopolitical
rivalries.
In
part,
the
latter
came
to
deadly
fruition
in
World
War
Two,
notably
with
the
German
attack
on
the
Soviet
Union
in
1941,
and
that
of
the
latter
on
Japan
in
1945.
Equally,
in
part,
the
alignments
of
that
war
witnessed
simply
a
particular
stage
of
those
rivalries.
This
wartime
stage,
more
correctly
stages,
did
not
end
a
deep
rivalry
between
Communism
and
the
West,
nor
the
related
struggles
to
control
the
fate
of
Europe,
the
Far
East,
and
the
Western
empires.
These
remained
a
theme
during
the
war,
and
became
more
important
thereafter.
Table of contents
- FC
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 1917–39
- 2 1939–45
- 3 1945–53
- 4 1953–68
- 5 1968–79
- 6 1979–85
- 7 1985–92
- Postscript
- Selected Further Reading
- Notes
- Index
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