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The Cold War may officially be over, but the debate about nuclear capabilities is as live now as it's ever been. With issues such as Trident missile renewal and the continuing review of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, the nuclear argument is rarely out of the headlines.
Haynes' latest history title The Cold War offers a historic context to the dark world of spying and Superpower confrontation mostly closely associated with the '50s, '60s and '70s.
Andrew Heritage's illustrated history records the elaborate game of move and counter-move that was played out on a global chessboard.
The Cold War is accessible to everyone from the casual reader to the student studying GCSE or A-Level history. The Cold War includes unique and powerful images from the world-famous Mirrorpix archive, vivid iconography from behind the Iron Curtain and easy-to-follow ready-reference timelines.
It is widely accepted that the Cold War began in the aftermath of the Second World War in the late 1940s, but Heritage shows the roots of this unprecedented, global impasse went much further back in time, beginning with the Communist revolutions in Russia and China at the start of the 20th century. He also shows how it was also linked to similarly tumultuous revolutions in science and technology in the first half of the 20th century.
Similarly, according to US President George Bush Sr., the Cold War officially ended in 1991, with the dissolution of the Soviet Republics (USSR). In this fascinating book Heritage illustrates how the aftermath is still being felt today, particularly in relation to ongoing ideological confrontations between the West and the countries and cultures of the Middle East, and between the 'Developed World' and the 'Developing World'.
Andrew Heritage says:
"Within a relatively concise book I have cast my net wide, not just historically, but geographically and culturally, in order to bring the Cold War to life, especially for a generation for whom it might now seem a dim and distant historical episode."
Author
Andrew Heritage is a publisher, writer and historian. He was editor of The Times historical atlas range for many years, and was editorial director for Atlases, History and Popular Culture at Dorling Kindersley/Penguin from 1991-2005. He is the author of The Landscapes of France (1989), and editor and principal contributor to Somme 90 (2006), The Secrets of Codes (2009) and The Book of Saints (2010). He is currently preparing The Secrets of Spies for publication in 2011. He lives near Cambridge.
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