Deighton Britain and the Cold War

1. Auflage 1990
ISBN: 978-1-349-10756-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 301 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: University of Reading European and International Studies

This collection challenges views of the Cold War as a purely bipolar affair, involving only the United States and the Soviet Union. It shows that Britain took a lead and continued to play an part in a drive to contain communism and that she tried to keep her own position as a great world power.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deighton, Anne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The British press and the coming of the Cold War, Alan Foster; Ernest Bevin, British officials and British Soviet policy, 1945-1947, Raymond Smith; towards a "western" strategy: the making of British policy towards Germany, 1945-1946, Anne Deighton; the secret hotline to Moscow: Donald Maclean and the Berlin crisis of 1948: Sheila Kerr; British military planning for postwar defence, 1943-1945, Anthony Gorst; British proposals for a United Nations Force, 1946-1951, Nicholas Wheeler; nuclear weapons and British Alliance Committments, 1955-1956, Martin Navias; the British Empire and the origins of the Cold War, 1944-1949, John Kent; invitation to Cold War: British policy in Iran, 1941-1947, Louise L'Estrange Fawcett; Britain, India and the Asian Cold War, 1949-1954, Anita Inder Singh; Britain's Asian Cold War: Malaya, Thomas Kaplan; Britain and the failure of collective defence in the Middle East, 1948-1953, David R.Devereux; the path to Suez: Britain and the struggle for the Middle East, 1953-1956, W.Scott Lucas; Britain, the Cold War and the economics of German rearmament, 1949-1951, Matthias Peter.