War and Cold War in American Foreign Policy, 1942-62

Book Overview

Making use of newly-researched archival material, this collection of original essays on wartime and postwar US foreign policy re-evaluates well-known crises and documents many less familiar aspects of the nation's mid-twentieth century conflicts. Leading diplomatic historians address familiar subjects from new angles. They offer new evidence about the risks run and the costs incurred in the prosecution of the Cold War, from Korea to the Caribbean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349423998
• ISBN13: 9781349423996
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"