The Cold War: the great powers and their allies - Dunbabin, J. P. D. (Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Education Limited / Longman, 2008)
The Cold War: an overview, p.3 -- The strategic dimension of East-West competition, p.30 -- The star of the Cold War, p.79 -- The nadir of the Cold War, 1948-1953, p.142 -- The Krushchev years - detentes, challenges, crises, p.199 -- The Vietnam War and other proxy conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s, p.276 -- Detente in Europe, p.322 -- The United States, China and the World, p.334 -- The rise and fall of detente in 1960s and 1970s, p.359 -- Tension and the ending of the Cold War in the 1980s, p.397 -- Western Europe I: The political order, p.437 -- Western Europe II: France, Germany, Britain, and the USA, p.451 -- Western Europe III: The European Union, p.498 -- Splits in the communist world, p.525 -- Eastern Europe since 1957, p.562 -- Perspectives on the Cold War and its aftermath, p.611
Includes bibliographical references (p. [619]-640) and index.
Keywords: Cold War; World politics -- 1945-1989.; World politics -- 1989-; Great powers; Koude Oorlog; Internationale orde