The Cold War For Dummies

by Sean Lang

Keychain explosives, poison-tipped umbrellas, mighty atom bombs and mutilating Napalm gas - and that's just scratching the surface! Welcome to the Cold one of the deadliest, craftiest, and most intriguing conflicts in modern history. Running down the Cold War timeline from start to finish, and showing how East-West tensions live on today (cue Bush versus Putin…), this easy-to-follow guide explains all the bloody invasions, propaganda, and political backstabbing from a global perspective, so you're sure to get the full story. Covering everything from the Berlin Blockade and the Vietnam War, to the Space Race, spies, Red-baiting, and Polonium-210, The Cold War For Dummies is all you need to understand the politics, origins, and legacy of this unique stand-off. The Cold War For Dummies Part I     The Isms
Chapter 1.  Adam Smith v Karl Marx
Chapter 2.  Lenin and the Russian Revolution
Chapter 3.  The Thirties
Chapter 4.  Right v Left in the Second World War Part II    A Freezing Cold War 1946-1964
Chapter 5.  Allies fall out 1946-56
Chapter 6.  China and Korea
Chapter 7.  Atoms and Agents
Chapter 8.  Eyeball to Eyeball
Chapter 9.  The fridge or the tractor?  Competing cultures Part III  Can we cool this Cold War? 1965-1985
Chapter 10.  Vietnam
Chapter 11.  My enemy's enemy - China and Russia fall out
Chapter 12.  Springtime for Brezhnev
Chapter 13.  All shades of red
Chapter 14.  Mr Reagan's Empire
Chapter 15.  The Russians are coming!  Cold War culture Part IV    Was that it?  1985-2008
Chapter 16.  Mr Gorbachev and his Interesting Ideas
Chapter 17.  1989 and All That
Chapter 18.  Yugoslavia
Chapter 19.  No Change in China?
Chapter 20.  Just like old times, eh, Mr Bush and Mr Putin? Part V  The Part of Tens
Chapter 21.  Ten Cold War spies
Chapter 22.  Ten Cold War films
Chapter 23.  Ten Cold War places to visit

576 pages, Paperback

Published December 13, 2010