Cold war : for 45 years the world held its breath - Isaacs, Jeremy, 1932-; Downing, Taylor (London ; New York : Bantam, 1998)
Comrades, 1917-1945 -- Iron curtain, 1945-1947 -- Marshall Plan, 1947-1952 -- Berlin, 1948-1949 -- Korea, 1949-1953 -- Reds, 1948-1953 -- Cold War films -- After Stalin, 1953-1956 -- Sputnik and the bomb, 1949-1961 -- The wall, 1958-1963 -- Back yard : Guatemala and Cuba, 1954-1962 -- Vietnam, 1954-1968 -- MAD, 1961-1972 -- Culture wars, 1960-1968 -- Cold War literature -- Détente, 1969-1975 -- Surrogates, 1967-1978 -- Freeze, 1977-1981 -- Reagan, 1981-1984 -- Cold War spies -- Gorbachev, 1984-1988 -- People power, 1989 -- Endings, 1990-1991.
"This book has its origins in a television series, also called Cold War, commissioned by Ted Turner"--p. ix.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-425) and index.
Keywords: Cold War; World politics -- 1945-1989.