Britain and the Cold War
Published on 23. March 1990
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-333-48985-7 (ISBN)
Description
This collection challenges conventional views of the cold war as a purely bipolar affair, involving only the United States and the Soviet Union. It shows that Britain tool a lead and continued to play an active part in a drive to contain communism; and that she tried to keep her own position as a great world power. Making extensive use of new official material, it throws fresh light on many questions surrounding Britain's postwar foreign policy and the cold war. How and when did fear of Soviet power develop in Britain? Why did Britain opt for an independent nuclear force? How seriously did she treat the UN? What role did she play in Iran, the Middle East, South East Asia and Germany during the critical early postwar years? "Britain and the First Cold War" makes an important contribution to the continuing international debate on these important issues.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 145 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-48985-7 (9780333489857)
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Content
The British press and the coming of the Cold War, Alan Foster; Ernest Bevin, British officials and British Soviet policy, 1945-1947, Raymond Smith; towards a "western" strategy: the making of British policy towards Germany, 1945-1946, Anne Deighton; the secret hotline to Moscow: Donald Maclean and the Berlin crisis of 1948: Sheila Kerr; British military planning for postwar defence, 1943-1945, Anthony Gorst; British proposals for a United Nations Force, 1946-1951, Nicholas Wheeler; nuclear weapons and British Alliance Committments, 1955-1956, Martin Navias; the British Empire and the origins of the Cold War, 1944-1949, John Kent; invitation to Cold War: British policy in Iran, 1941-1947, Louise L'Estrange Fawcett; Britain, India and the Asian Cold War, 1949-1954, Anita Inder Singh; Britain's Asian Cold War: Malaya, Thomas Kaplan; Britain and the failure of collective defence in the Middle East, 1948-1953, David R.Devereux; the path to Suez: Britain and the struggle for the Middle East, 1953-1956, W.Scott Lucas; Britain, the Cold War and the economics of German rearmament, 1949-1951, Matthias Peter.