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Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States and the Soviet Union, two national ideological entities, waged proxy wars to determine spheres of influence--and millions of others perished in places like Korea, Vietnam, and Angola, where this cold war flared hot. Such a consideration of the Cold War--as a military event with sociopolitical and economic overtones--is the crux of this stellar collection of twenty-six essays compiled and edited by Robert Cowley, the longtime editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. Befitting such a complex and far-ranging period, the volume's contributing writers cover myriad angles. John Prados, in "The War Scare of 1983," shows just how close we were to escalating a war of words into a nuclear holocaust. Victor Davis Hanson offers "The Right Man," his pungent reassessment of the bellicose

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Author

Robert Cowley, Stephen E. Ambrose, Caleb Carr, Thomas J. Fleming, Victor Hanson

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375509100

Category

history

Subjects

History, Military History, Humanities

Rating

3.82 / 5 (64 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14