The Berlin Wall Crisis: Perspectives on Cold War Alliances

By: Schake, Kori

This volume highlights the complex intra-alliance politics of what was seen as the likeliest flash point of conflict in the Cold War and demonstrates how strongly determinant were concerns about relationships with allies in the choices made by all the major governments. It recounts the evolution of policy during the 1958 and 1961 Berlin crises from the perspective of each government central to the crisis, one on the margins, and the military headquarters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333929608
• ISBN13: 9780333929605
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 9.0"