RR 2008/324 The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social and Military History

摘要

When I agreed to review this title I remarked that I might as well given that I had lived through more or less its entire chronological span. The Cold War dominated my childhood, and much of my adulthood too. I suppose that in some respects it still does. I recall discussions at home in the 1950s, followed during my first year at university by my best friend, who claimed never to have opened a newspaper in his life, buying a newspaper every morning during the Cuban missile crisis convinced that we were all about to be incinerated in a nuclear holocaust.