Longman Companion to Cold War and Detente 1941-91

For most of its fifty-year span, the Cold War and its tensions were the dominating fact of world history; today it is over, and whatever the future brings, it will be different. This timely Companion is a guide to the whole course of East/West relations, in all their manifestations, from the Grand Alliance of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Concise and intensely practical, the book sets all the major characters, conflicts, crises and conferences in their full international context.Young, John W. is the author of 'Longman Companion to Cold War and Detente 1941-91' with ISBN 9780582061729 and ISBN 0582061725.