The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968

by Günter Bischof

Book Overview

The essays of a dozen leading European and American Cold War historians analyze the 'Prague Spring' and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in light of new documentary evidence from the archives of two dozen countries and explain what happened behind the scenes. They also reassess the weak response of the United States and consider whether Washington might have given a 'green light, ' if only inadvertently, to the Soviet Union prior to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739143050
• ISBN13: 9780739143056
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 530 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"