Contributor
Cowley, Robert.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Random House, c2005.
Descriptionxvi, 478 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Note:I. First skirmishes: The day the cold war started / James Chace -- Cloak-and-dagger in Salzburg / Harris Greene -- The great rescue / David Clay Large -- Incident at Lang Fang / Eugene B. Sledge -- The escape of the Amethyst / Simon Winchester -- II. Police action: --The United States, the U.N., and Korea / James Chace, Caleb Carr -- Truman fires MacArthur / David McCullough -- The man who saved Korea / Thomas Fleming -- The first jet war / Dennis E. Showalter -- "Murderers of Koje-do!" / Lawrence Malkin -- Stategic view: the meaning of Panmunjom / Robert Cowley -- III. The deep cold war: The truth about overflights / R. Cargill Hall -- The Berlin tunnel / George Feifer -- The invasion of Cuba / Dino A. Brugioni -- Twilight zone in the Pentagon / Thomas B. Allen -- The right man / Victor Davis Hanson -- IV. Vietnam: the long good-bye: Calamity on the R.C.4 / Douglas Porch -- Dien Bien Phu / Williamson Murray -- The general at ease: an interview with William C. Westmoreland / Laura Palmer -- The mystery of Khe Sanh / James Warren -- The evacuation of Kham Duc / Ronald H. Spector -- MIA / Marilyn Elkins -- "That's ocay XX time is on our side" / Geoffrey Norman -- The Christmas bombing / Stephen E. Ambrose -- V.The end -- The ICBM and the cold war: technology in the driver's seat / John F. Guilmartin, Jr. -- The war scare of 1983 / John Prados -- There goes Brussels ... / Williamson Murray.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
