Название: The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War
Автор: Norman Stone
Издательство: Allen Lane
ISBN: 184614275X
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 688
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Язык: Английский
Those who survived the Second World War stared out onto a devastated, morally ruined world. Much of Europe and Asia had been so ravaged that it was unclear whether any form of normal life could ever be established again - coups, collapsing empires and civil wars, some on a vast scale, continued to reshape country after country long after the fighting was meant to have ended.
Everywhere the 'Atlantic' world (the USA, Britain and a handful of allies) was on the defensive and its enemies on the move. For every Atlantic success there seemed to be a dozen Communist or 'Third World' successes, as the USSR and its proxies crushed dissent and humiliated the United States on both military and cultural grounds.