Norstad: Cold-War NATO Supreme Commander: Airman, Strategist, Diplomat

by Robert S. Jordan

Book Overview

This book offers a biography of the most glamorous and powerful NATO Supreme Commander of the Cold War, General Lauris Norstad, as both a "nuclear" general and an "international" general. His primary goal was to keep the Alliance together as he accommodated British and French nuclear ambitions while forestalling the same in West Germany. He also was at the center of the political/military maneuverings over Berlin and the Soviet attempt to blackmail...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312226705
• ISBN13: 9780312226701
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.8"