The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War - Hardcover

Stone, Norman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465020437 ISBN 13: 9780465020430

Publisher: Basic Books, 2010

Synopsis

After World War II, the former allies were saddled with a devastated world economy and traumatized populace. Soviet influence spread insidiously from nation to nation, and the Atlantic powersthe Americans, the British, and a small band of allieswere caught flat-footed by the coups, collapsing armies, and civil wars that sprung from all sides. The Cold War had begun in earnest. In The Atlantic and Its Enemies, prize-winning historian Norman Stone assesses the years between World War II and the collapse of the Iron Curtain. He vividly demonstrates that for every Atlantic success there seemed to be a dozen Communist or Third World triumphs. Then, suddenly and against all odds, the Atlantic woneconomically, ideologically, and militarilywith astonishing speed and finality. An elegant and path-breaking history, The Atlantic and Its Enemies is a monument to the immense suffering and conflict of the twentieth century, and an illuminating exploration of how the Atlantic triumphed over its enemies at last.

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Review:

Mark Mazower, Financial Times "Pedantic historians are just one of Norman Stone's targets in this swashbuckling survey of the cold war. Perhaps the most brilliant Europeanist of his generation, a man with an intimate knowledge of at least half a dozen countries, and the languages to match, he serves the reader a spicier fare than the pabulums provided by his more cautious brethren." TusconCitizen.com "What gives this hefty 668-page book its literary legs is how the author has vividly captured the atmosphere of the time and the moral and political crises that tempered strategies on both sides of the Atlantic. The Atlantic and Its Enemies is full of surp TusconCitizen.com "What gives this hefty 668-page book its literary legs is how the author has vividly captured the atmosphere of the time and the moral and political crises that tempered strategies on both sides of the Atlantic. The Atlantic and Its Enemies is full of surprises." Bookviews.com "Some works of history are so monumental that they are especially deserving of praise. This is the case of Norman Stone's The Atlantic and Its Enemies." National Review

About the Author:

Norman Stone is the author of World War One, The Eastern Front 1914-1917 (winner of the Wolfson Prize), and Europe Transformed. He has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Bilkent, where he is now Director of the Turkish-Russian Center. He lives in Oxford and Istanbul.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0465020437
• ISBN 13: 9780465020430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 668