Provides an account of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 from both the U.S. and Soviet perspectives, looking at the factors that led to the crisis, and discussing how the dangerous situation was defused.
Presents main themes in twentieth-century life, including military confrontations, booms and depressions, political ideologies, and technological developments.
leadership in a time of horror and hope, 1945-1953
Dallek, Robert
2010
Includes: Winston Churchill; Mao Tse-tung; Douglas Mac Arthur; Vyacheslav Molotov; Dean Acheson; James Byrnes; Chiang Kai-shek; Charles de Gaulle; Dwight Eisenhower; Adolf Hitler; George Kennan; Kim Il Sung; Syngman Rhee; Franklin Roosevelt; Joseph Stalin; Harry Truman.
a general history and annotated chronology, with selected biographies
Schwartz, Richard Alan
1997
Provides an overview of the Cold War, identifying the major issues and events; offers an in-depth discussion of some of the conflict's more significant developments; features an annotated chronology of events; and includes biographies of American figures and biographical sketches of international leaders.
Presents a history of the tense, often combative, relations between western canpitalist and eastern socialist countries during the period following World War II.