Looking Back at the Cold War
A shadow over all our lives... The Cold War? It was no game of blind man`s bluff, as the author shows clearly in this hugely informative and insightful overview. Unlike most Western writers, Mr de Bueky has lived behind the Iron Curtain. As a journalist he worked for Radio Free Europe, and he knows the meaning of freedom. He knows the meaning of communism too. So why did it all fall down? It wasn`t just a case of `they became like us`, the author contends. We won, they lost, and thank the Lord for our liberties. From Berlin to Korea, Cuba to Afghanistan, from Yalta to the staggering events of 1989, it was a struggle all the way, as the year 1989 was not just the `annus mirabillis` but the endgame in that struggle. This work details the...
Дата выхода: январь 2004
