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The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War
Norman Friedman
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Description for The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War
Paperback. Authors have portrayed the period of Cold War as an uneasy peace, enforced by the possibility of mutual destruction through atomic and nuclear weapons. Synthesizing an array of information from a diverse spectrum of sources on both sides of the iron curtain, this book challenges conventional thinking on the subject. Num Pages: 640 pages, 26 photographs, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBG; HBLW3; HBW; JPS; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 39. Weight in Grams: 898.
Winner of the Royal United Services Institute Westminster Medal for Military Literature `To read a comprehensive history of the technical, military and political aspects of the Cold War, based on documents from the two super powers, written by a scholar who is free of bias, is something I never thought I would be able to do. But in The Fifty-Year War I can. . . For the men and women who are going to lead the world in the first generation of the twenty-first century, this account of how the Cold War was fought and won is indispensable. For ... Read more
Winner of the Royal United Services Institute Westminster Medal for Military Literature `To read a comprehensive history of the technical, military and political aspects of the Cold War, based on documents from the two super powers, written by a scholar who is free of bias, is something I never thought I would be able to do. But in The Fifty-Year War I can. . . For the men and women who are going to lead the world in the first generation of the twenty-first century, this account of how the Cold War was fought and won is indispensable. For ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
Annopolis, United States
ISBN
9781591142874
SKU
V9781591142874
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About Norman Friedman
Dr Norman Friedman is a defense analyst and historian specializing in the intersection of technology and national strategy. He was Deputy Director of National Security Studies at the Hudson Insitute in New York under Herman Kahn, and later was personal consultant to the Secretary of the Navy for a decade. The author of over 30 books, he conducted or ... Read more
Reviews for The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War
To read a comprehensive history of the technical, military and political aspects of the Cold War, based on documents from the two super powers, written by a scholar who is free of bias, is something I never thought I would be able to do. But in The Fifty-Year War I can... For the men and women who are going to ... Read more