Flashpoint Trieste
The First Battle of the Cold War
1st Edition
Published on 18. May 2017
328 pages
978-1-4728-2172-0 (ISBN)
Description
Flashpoint Trieste is the story of one year in one city as the Cold War begins.
The Western Allies captured the Adriatic port city before the Russians could reach it, but having survived the war, everybody is now desperate to make it through the liberation. Life is fast and violent, as former warring parties find common cause against the Soviet Union and the borders of the new Europe are being hammered out.
Against this deadly backdrop of espionage, escape and revenge, the British and Americans are locked into the opening stages of the Cold War on the beautiful shores of the Adriatic, opposing the Russians and Yugoslavs.
This is the story of the first turbulent post-war year of lethal cat-and-mouse in south-eastern Europe, told through the stories of twelve men and women from seven different countries thrown together on a strategically vital frontier between East and West.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
File size
47,25 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4728-2172-0 (9781472821720)
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Christian Jennings is a British freelance foreign correspondent and the author of six works of non-fiction. Since 1988, across twenty-three countries, he has been an author and journalist on international current affairs, modern history and popular science for publications ranging from The Economist and Reuters to Wired, The Guardian, and The Scotsman. He has been based variously in Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Burundi, Kenya and Switzerland. His recent book At War on the Gothic Line (Osprey, 2016), was described in The Spectator as 'military history at its most engaging'. He lives in Turin, Italy.
Content
Preface: This Land is My Land, June 2016
Author's Note
Maps
Part One: The Fall of Trieste
Part Two: Revenge in Trieste
Part Three: Brinkmanship on the Adriatic
Part Four: Colonialism on the Adriatic
Part Five: War in the Shadows
Part Six: The New Europe
Epilogue: What Became of the Characters in the Book
Appendix: Science Finds the Evidence
Glossary
Notes
Index
Author's Note
Maps
Part One: The Fall of Trieste
Part Two: Revenge in Trieste
Part Three: Brinkmanship on the Adriatic
Part Four: Colonialism on the Adriatic
Part Five: War in the Shadows
Part Six: The New Europe
Epilogue: What Became of the Characters in the Book
Appendix: Science Finds the Evidence
Glossary
Notes
Index
