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At the abyss
an insider's history of the Cold War
1st ed.
Thomas C. Reed ; [introduction by George H.W. Bush]
Published
2004
by
Random House Pub.
in
New York
.
Written in English.
About the Book
An unvarnished view of America's fight against Communism, from the end of WWII to the closing of the Strategic Air Command.
Table of Contents
| Communist takeovers and makeovers | ||
| The fifties unfold | ||
| The Paparazzi pilots | ||
| Howard Hughes supplies the props | ||
| Rockets and missiles | ||
| Sputnik and the missile gap | ||
| Nuclear weapons and the Soviet Union | ||
| The American cyberskippers | ||
| The resumption of nuclear tests | ||
| Getting started in Vietnam | ||
| Winter on the Spanish coast | ||
| Dawn of the information age | ||
| The Air Force recovers from Vietnam | ||
| Inefficiency kills, empires as well as people | ||
| President Reagan sets up the checkmate | ||
| Ghost stories from the Reagan White House | ||
| The queen of hearts | ||
| Cheney, Powell, and the nuclear genie | ||
| The closers | ||
| The Soviet solstice | ||
| The heroes | ||
| Closing down. |
Edition Notes
Includes index.
"A Presidio Press book." ; Ballantine Books.
Classifications
Dewey Decimal Class |
327.73047 |
Library of Congress |
D843 .R36 2004 |
The Physical Object
Pagination |
ix, 368 p. : |
Number of pages |
368 |
ID Numbers
Open Library |
OL24763744M |
Internet Archive |
atabyssinsidersh00reed |
ISBN 10 |
0891418210 |
ISBN 13 |
9780891418214 |
OCLC/WorldCat |
54660419 |
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