Wars of The Cold War
Campaigns & Conflicts 1945 - 1990
Published on 26. October 2018
256 pages
978-1-84994-519-6 (ISBN)
Description
Though the words, Cold War, refer to a period of specific international tension it is also true that the wars, conflicts and armed disputes of the period were most often influenced by, and even created because of, the existence of a 'cold war' environment - the Cold War was, in many ways, the Third World War. This extensive and authoritative volume presents all the major wars of the period - Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, etc., the uprisings and revolts in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, etc, and even the skirmishes, such as the Cuba Missile Crisis, in a form that is suitable both for reading and for reference. Indeed, it is a book that meets a major need for historians, students and professionals working in the field of international current affairs and modern history.
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Person
David Stone is a former British army infantry officer. Much of his service was in Germany, both with and alongside soldiers of the Bundeswehr in peacetime and on operations. He became a military historian in 2002, and is the author of the authoritative works Hitler's Army: The Men, Machines and Organisation, 1939-1945 (2009) and Fighting for the Fatherland: The Story of the German Soldier from 1648 to the Present Day (2006). Richard Holmes described the latter as 'the most comprehensive and accessible account of the German soldier ever published in English.' His other titles include the acclaimed 'First Reich' (2002), Battles in Focus: Dien Bien Phu (2004), Wars of the Cold War (2004) and War Summits (2005). He also wrote Cold War Warriors (1998) and was a consultant and co-author of World War II Chronicle (2007).
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Author's Note and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One: 1945: The Foundations of Conflict
- Chapter Two: Background to Conflict: The Age of the Superpower
- Never the Twain: The United States and the Soviet Union
- A Superpower in Embryo: The People's Republic of China
- The Rise of International Terrorism
- Chapter Three: The Nuclear Dimension
- Enabling Apocalypse
- Caribbean Crisis: Cuba, 1962
- The Nuclear Balance and Arms Control
- Chapter Four: The Cold War Combatants
- The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
- The Warsaw Pact
- Chapter Five: Europe: Focus of Conflict 52
- Greece, 1945-9
- Germany and Berlin, 1945-8
- The Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948-9
- Berlin, Post-1949
- The Hungarian Uprising, 1956
- The Berlin Wall, 1961
- Czechoslovakia, 1968: The Prague Spring
- Poland, 1980-1
- The End of the Cold War in Europe
- Chapter Six: The Korean War, 1950-3
- A Land Divided: 1945-50
- A Decisive Response: June-September 1950
- Inchon and its Aftermath: September 1950
- Enter the Dragon: October 1950 to March 1951
- Battle on the Imjin: March to April 1951
- Stalemate and Armistice: June 1951 to July 1953
- Chapter Seven: Malaya, 1948-60
- Origins of an Insurgency
- A Plan of Campaign: 1948-51
- Hearts, Minds and Independence: October 1951 to July 1960
- Chapter Eight: Indochina and Vietnam, 1946-54
- Colonialism, Communism and Empire
- Disaster at Cao Bang: 16 September to 17 October 1950
- An Expanding Conflict: January 1951 to November 1953
- Dien Bien Phu: November 1953 to May 1954
- End of an Empire
- Geneva, 1954: The Seeds of Future Conflict
- Chapter Nine: Indochina and Vietnam, 1954-75
- America's War: Origins, Nature and Perceptions
- The Die is Cast: 1965
- Airmobile and Air Assault: 1965-8
- A Defining Moment: The Tet Offensive, 1968
- The Beginning of the End: 1970-2
- Hollow Victory: The Defeat of the Communist Invasion, 1972
- The Great Betrayal: 1973-5
- Decline and Fall: 1975
- Chapter Ten: Towards Armageddon: The Middle East, 1947-90
- A Matter of Conscience: Palestine, Israel and the Arabs, 1945-50
- Sinai and the Anglo-French Suez Campaign, 1956
- The Six-Day War, 1967
- The Yom Kippur War, 1973
- The Lebanon, 1982
- Chapter Eleven: Dark Deeds in the Dark Continent: Africa, 1952-90
- Algeria, 1954-62
- The Congo, 1960-5
- Angola, Mozambique and Guinea
- Nigeria, 1967-70
- Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea, 1974-91
- Chapter Twelve: The Soviet War in Afghanistan, 1979-89
- Chapter Thirteen: The Oil Weapon and the First Gulf War, 1980-8
- Début of the Oil Weapon
- The Iran-Iraq Conflict, 1980-8
- The Catalyst of Conflict
- Chapter Fourteen: The Triumph of Capitalism
- Chapter Fifteen: Legacy of Conflict
- A Brave New World?
- The Nuclear Perspective
- The Social Dimension
- Border Controls and Illegal Immigration
- The Middle East Powder Keg
- The War on Terrorism
- Future Security Needs: Armed Forces and Military Service
- The Superpower Monopoly
- A Fragile Future
- Postscript 'Shock and Awe' in Iraq
- Notes
- Bibliography and Sources
- Index
- Plates
- Copyright
