Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War - Hardcover

Jennings, Christian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 147282170X ISBN 13: 9781472821706

Publisher: Osprey Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

IN THE DYING DAYS OF WORLD WAR II OLD ALLIES BECOME NEW ENEMIES
Flashpoint Trieste is the story of one year in one city as the Cold War begins. The Western Allies had captured the Adriatic port city before the Russians could reach it, but having survived the war, everybody is now desperate to make it through the liberation. Life is fast and violent, as former warring parties find common cause against the Soviet Union and the borders of the new Europe are being hammered out. Against this deadly backdrop of intelligence operations, escape and revenge, the British and Americans are locked into the opening salvoes of the Cold War on the beautiful shores of the Adriatic, opposing the Russians and Yugoslavs.

This is the story of the first turbulent post-war year of lethal cat-and-mouse in south-eastern Europe, told through the stories of twelve men and women from seven different countries thrown together on a strategically vital frontier between East and West.

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About the Author

Christian Jennings is a British freelance foreign correspondent and the author of six works of non-fiction. Since 1988, across twenty-three countries, he has been an author and journalist on international current affairs, modern history and popular science for publications ranging from The Economist and Reuters to Wired, The Guardian, and The Scotsman. He has been based variously in Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Burundi, Kenya and Switzerland. His recent book At War on the Gothic Line (Osprey, 2016), was described in The Spectator as 'military history at its most engaging'. He lives in Turin, Italy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147282170X
• ISBN 13: 9781472821706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304