Do you know why the
world came to the brink of nuclear war?
Two words – ‘Cold
War’.
The Cold War was
international affairs for the second half of the 20th Century. Nuclear
weapons testing, civil wars in all corners of the globe and the race for
economic dominance were all key spheres of the Cold War, although they were
just a few elements of a very complex global puzzle. More so than the great
battles between Carthage and Rome in Ancient times or the Napoleonic Wars, the
Cold War defined our world. But, there was one key difference between the Cold
War and earlier major wars. Due to advances in technology and communications,
the Cold War touched most countries on earth.
This introduction
to the early years of the Cold War is the debut book from George Levrier-Jones.
He tells the story of the great clash between the Communist Soviet Union and
the capitalist USA. George’s fast-paced, concise writing style will allow you
to quickly learn about the key events of the Cold War, and to find out how the
world came to the cusp of nuclear annihilation.
The topics in the book include:
- The origins of the
Cold War and why the USSR and USA emerged from World War 2 as super-powers
- How the Soviet
Union and the USA quickly went from war-time allies to enemies
- The key changes in
post-war Europe
- The Berlin blockade
and the building of the Berlin Wall
- Events in East Asia
- the Chinese Civil War and why the Korean War became integral to the Cold War
- Nuclear weapons
development
- Uprisings and
revolutions in Eastern Europe in the 1950s, including the Hungarian revolution
- The most dangerous
event of the early Cold War years, the Cuban Missile Crisis
The approximately 80-page
book is the perfect complement to the Cold War History audio series that is
available as part of the ‘History in 28-minutes’
podcasts.
So come and join
the past – buy the book now!
George Levrier-Jones
