Atlantic And Its Enemies, The. A History Of The Cold War

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin Press
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: Reprint

Description: 667 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Those who survived the Second World War stared out onto a devastated, morally ruined world. Much of Europe and Asia had been so ravaged that it was unclear whether any form of normal life could ever be established again. Everywhere the Atlantic world (the USA, Britain and a handful of allies) was on the defensive and its enemies on the move. For every Atlantic success there seemed to be a dozen Communist or Third World successes, as the USSR and its proxies crushed dissent and humiliated the United States on both military and cultural grounds. For all the astonishing productivity of the American, Japanese and mainland western European economies (setting aside the fiasco of Britains implosion), most of the world was either under Communist rule or lost in a violent stagnancy that seemed doomed to permanence. Then, suddenly, the Atlantic won - economically, ideologically, militarily - with astonishing speed and completeness.

ISBN: 9780141044637