On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague

by Igor Lukes

Book Overview

In 1945, both the U.S. State Department and U.S. Intelligence saw Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe and as a chessboard for the power-game between East and West. Washington believed that the political scene in Prague was the best available indicator of whether the United States would be able to coexist with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.

In this book, Igor Lukes illuminates the end of World War II and the early...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195166795
• ISBN13: 9780195166798
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"