{"product_id":"cold-war-for-45-years-the-world-held-its-breath-isaacs-downing-1998","title":"Cold War by Jeremy Isaacs \u0026 Taylor Downing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCold War (Illustrated Companion to the CNN Cold War Series)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Illustrated Companion to the Landmark Television History of the Superpower Confrontation, 1917 to 1991\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliographic Specifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cold War: For 45 years the world held its breath\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jeremy Isaacs \u0026amp; Taylor Downing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bantam Press, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1998\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780593043097\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 059304309X\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Publisher's black cloth hardcover with printed, illustrated dust jacket.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePhysical Format:\u003c\/strong\u003e Large illustrated volume, 438 pages. With numerous black and white and colour photographs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOfficial Condition Report\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Book:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good Plus (VG+)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExterior \/ Boards:\u003c\/strong\u003e The black cloth boards are clean, with only a few tiny light specks. Spine edges and corners are square and the fore-edge is clean.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e The pages seen are clean and bright, free of foxing, marks or writing. The binding is tight. No ex-library marks, stamps or bookplates.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dust Jacket:\u003c\/strong\u003e Present. The illustrated jacket (mushroom cloud on a purple ground) is intact with no tears. There is light scuffing to the black spine at the top and bottom edges, slight edge rubbing and some wear at the corners. Protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSynopsis \u0026amp; Historical Value\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in London by Bantam Press in 1998, Cold War: For 45 Years the World Held Its Breath is the illustrated companion to the CNN documentary series of the same name. It surveys the military and ideological rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union across the half-century after the Second World War, and opens with the 1917 Russian Revolution and the Allied intervention that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe chapters move from the first postwar tensions and the Iron Curtain through Berlin, Korea, Cuba and Vietnam to detente, Gorbachev and the endings of 1990-91. The narrative draws on the recollections of statesmen and ordinary people alike, and is complemented by sections on the spies, films and literature of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLavishly illustrated with black and white and colour photographs, it is a substantial, handsome volume for anyone interested in twentieth-century geopolitics, including the superpower rivalry that shaped Southern Africa's own Cold War-era conflicts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Profile: Jeremy Isaacs \u0026amp; Taylor Downing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJeremy Isaacs (born Glasgow, 1932) was a leading British television producer and executive. He joined Granada Television in 1958, produced the celebrated series The World at War (1973-74), and co-produced the 24-part Cold War series of 1998. 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