Operation Temperate

by John Agnew

The Central European War continues to devastate Germany. Soviet and Polish forces have advanced far into Western Germany before being halted by a desperate NATO defence. Both sides are using a ceasefire to build up their strength for the next round. NATO decides it is time they went on the offensive, to show the Soviets and their reluctant Ally how expensive continuing the War could be. However, counterattacks bring their own risks and can be expensive for both sides. Will NATO's counterattack relieve the pressure on NATO and force the Soviets to the negotiating table or will it waste NATO's precious reserves, bringing defeat ever closer? Either way, the price, for both sides, will be paid in blood.

226 pages, Paperback

Published September 2, 2018

About the author

Agnew is currently Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From 1975 until 1995 he was a professor at Syracuse University in New York. Dr. Agnew teaches courses on political geography, the history of geography, European cities, and the Mediterranean World. From 1998 to 2002 he chaired the Department of Geography at UCLA.

He has written widely on questions of territory, place, and political power. He has also worked on issues of "science" in geography and how knowledge is created and circulates in and across places. He is best known for his work completely reinventing "geopolitics" as a field of study and for his theoretical and empirical efforts at showing how national politics is best understood in terms of the geographical dynamics of "places" and how they are made out of both local and long-distance determinants. Much of his empirical research involves Italy, Greece, and the United States.