| A Cardboard Castle?: An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991 Contributor(s): Mastny, Vojtech (Editor), Byrne, Malcolm (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9637326073 ISBN-13: 9789637326073 Publisher: Central European University Press OUR PRICE: $48.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2006 Annotation: The first book to document, analyze, and interpret the history of the Warsaw Pact based on the archives of the alliance itself. The introductory study is followed by 193 documents, most of them top secret when created and have only recently been obtained from the Eastern European archives by the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact, an international consortium of scholars. The majority of the texts have never appeared in English before, and each of them is accompanied by explanatory remarks. A chronology of the main events in the history of the Warsaw Pact, a list of its leading officials, a selective multilingual bibliography, and an analytical index completes the book. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Eastern Europe - General - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 355.031 |
| LCCN: 2005002291 |
| Physical Information: 1.75" H x 6.49" W x 9.32" (2.69 lbs) 786 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first book to document, analyze, and interpret the history of the Warsaw Pact based on the archives of the alliance itself. The introductory study is followed by 193 documents, most of them top secret when created and have only recently been obtained from the Eastern European archives by the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact, an international consortium of scholars. The majority of the texts have never appeared in English before, and each of them is accompanied by explanatory remarks. A chronology of the main events in the history of the Warsaw Pact, a list of its leading officials, a selective multilingual bibliography, and an analytical index completes the book. |