Book Reviews
| For your convenience, the reviews appear in order of their original publication. Please suggest any further book reviews on NATO or Warsaw Pact history to the PHP Team. |
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Andreas Wenger, Vojtech Mastny and Christian Nuenlist, eds. Origins of the European Security System. The Helsinki Process Revisited, 1965-75. London: Routledge 2008. 288 pp. £70. ISBN: 978-0-415-43387-7. Leopoldo Nuti, ed. The Crisis of Détente in Europe. From Helsinki to Gorbachev, 1975-1985. London: Routledge, 2009. 304 pp. £75. ISBN: 978-0-415-46051-4. Oliver Bange and Gottfried Niedhart, eds. Helsinki 1975 and the Transformation of Europe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. 216 pp. $75. ISBN: 978-1-845-45491-3. |
Reviewed by: Wolfgang Schmidt, Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung, Berlin Published by: H-Net (September 2009) |
| Horst Möller, Alexandr O. Tschubarjan, eds. SMAD-Handbuch. Die Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland 1945-1949. München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2009. 822 S. €99.80. ISBN: 978-3-486-58696-1. | Reviewed by: Andreas Thüsing, Hannah-Arendt-Institut, Dresden Published by: H-Net (September 2009) |
| Mary Ann Heiss, S. Victor Papacosma, eds. NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. 244 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-87338-936-5. | Reviewed by: Luke Nichter, Texas A&M Published by: H-Net (August 2009) |
| Asaf Siniver. Nixon, Kissinger, and U.S. Foreign Policy Making: The Machinery of Crisis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 252 pp. $80. ISBN 978-0-521-89762-4 | Reviewed by: Jussi Hanhimäki, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Published by: H-Net (May 2009) |
| Silke Satjukow. Besatzer. „Die Russen“ in Deutschland 1945-1994. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. 405 S. €34.90. ISBN 978-3-525-36380-5 | Reviewed by: Jan Foitzik, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, München-Berlin Published by: sehepunkte (March 2009) |
| Andreas Wenger, Christian Nuenlist and Anna Locher, eds. Transforming NATO in the Cold War: Challenges beyond Deterrence in the 1960s. London: Routledge, 2007. 251 pp. £75. ISBN 978-0-415-39737-7. By courtesy of Mark Kramer and the Journal of Cold War Studies. | Reviewed by: Ray C. Hendrickson, East Illinois University Published by: Journal of Cold War Studies (January 2009) |
| Klaus Eichner and Gotthold Schramm, eds. Top-Spione im Westen. Spitzenquellen der DDR-Aufklärung erinnern sich. Berlin: Edition Ost, 2008. 320 S. €14.90. ISBN 978-3-360-01096-4 | Reviewed by: Helmut Müller-Enbergs, Behörde für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes (BStU) Published by: H-Soz-u-Kult (January 2009) |
Mary Ann Heiss, S. Victor Papacosma, eds. NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. 244 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-87338-936-5. |
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Michael Goodman. Spying on The Nuclear Bear: Anglo-American Intelligence and The Soviet Bomb. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 295 pp. $50. ISBN 978-0-8047-5585-6 |
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Elena Jur’evna Zubkova. Pribaltika i Kreml' 1940-1953 [The Baltics and the Kremlin 1940-1953]. Moscow: Rosspen, 2008. 351 pp. $27.95. ISBN 978-5-82430-909-6 |
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Gerhard Wettig. Stalin and the Cold War in Europe: the Emergence and Development of East-West Conflict, 1939-1953. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. 294 pp. €60.99. ISBN: 978-0-742-55542-6 |
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Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali. Khrushchev's Cold War. The Inside Story of an American Adversary. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2006. 670 pp. €36.69. ISBN: 0-393-05809-3 |
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Vladislav Zubok. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 488 pp. €30.99. ISBN: 978-0-807-83098-7 |
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Matthias Uhl. Krieg um Berlin? Die sowjetische Militär- und Sicherheitspolitik in der zweiten Berlin-Krise 1958 bis 1962. Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2008. 295 S. €39.80. ISBN: 978-3-486-58542-1 |
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| Vojtech Mastny. "The 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: A Missed Opportunity for Détente?" The Journal of Cold War Studies 10.1 (Winter 2008): 3-25. By courtesy of Mark Kramer and the Journal of Cold War Studies. | Reviewed by: Marc Trachtenberg , UCLA Published by: H-Diplo (April 2008), Mastny's Rejoinder (April 2008) |
David Reynolds. Summits: Six Meetings That Changed the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, 2007. 544 pp. $35. ISBN: 978-0-465-06904-0 |
Reviewed by: Antoine Capet, University of Rouen Published by: H-Soz-u-Kult (April 2008) |
Nina Tannenwald. The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 449 pp. £19.99. ISBN: 978-0521818865 |
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Douglas Brinkley. The Reagan Diaries. New York: Harper Collins, 2007. 784 pp. €37.99. ISBN: 978-0-06-087600-5 |
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Hermann Wentker. Außenpolitik in engen Grenzen. Die DDR im internationalen System. Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2007. 612 S. €49.80. ISBN: 978-3-486-58345-8 |
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Lawrence Kaplan. NATO 1948: The Birth of the Transatlantic Alliance. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. |
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Peter Veleff. Angriffsziel Schweiz? Zurich: Verlag Orell Füssli, 2007. 320 S. Fr. 58. ISBN: 3-936096-61-9 |
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Benedikt Schoenborn.
La mésentente apprivoisée. De Gaulle et les Allemands, 1963-1969. Paris:
Presses Universitaires de France, 2007. 432 S. €40.
ISBN: 978-2130560388 |
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Michael H. Hunt. The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained & Wielded Global Dominance. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, April 2007. 416 pp., 8 illus., 1 table, notes, bibl., index. $34.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0-8078-3090-1 |
Roundtable Editor: Thomas Maddux Reviewers: Andrew Bacevich, Alfred E. Eckes, Stephen G. Rabe, Thomas Zeiler H-Diplo (December 2007) |
Gerhard Wettig. Chruschtschows Berlin-Krise 1958 bis 1963. Drohpolitik und Mauerbau. München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2006. 280 S. €27.85. ISBN: 3-486-57993-2 |
Reviewed by: Stefan Creuzberger, Historisches Institut, Universität Potsdam Published by: H-Soz-u-Kult (November 2007) |
Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali. Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary. New York: W.W. Norton, February 2006 (hardcover, ISBN: 0-393-05809-3); October 2007 (paperback, ISBN: 978-0-393-33072-4). |
Roundtable Editor: Thomas Maddux |
| Odd Arne Westad. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $35. ISBN 978-0-52185-364-4. (Paperback, published 2007, $19.99, ISBN 978-0-52170-314-7). | Roundtable Editor: Thomas Maddux Reviewers: Jerald Combs, William Hitchcock, David Painter, Natalia Yegorova Published by: H-Net (October 2007) |
Karsten Wert. Ersatzkrieg im Weltraum. Das US-Raumfahrtprogramm in der Öffentlichkeit der 1960er Jahre, Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag 2006. 310 S. €34.90. ISBN 3-593-38039-1 |
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James J. Marquardt. “Transparency and Security Competition: Open Skies and America’s Cold War Statecraft, 1948-1960,” Journal of Cold War Studies 9.1 (Winter 2007): 55-87. |
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Klaus Schwabe. Weltmacht und Weltordnung: Amerikanische Außenpolitik von 1898 bis zur Gegenwart. Eine Jahrhundertgeschichte. (World Power and World Order, from 1898 to the present. A history of the Twentieth century). Paderborn: Schöningh, 2005. ISBN: 978-3-506-74783-9 |
Reviewed by: Günter Bischof, Christian Hacke, Donal O’Sullivan, George Schild, Thomas Schwartz. Published by: H-Net (June 2007) |
Tony Judt. Geschichte Europas. Von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart. Aus dem Englischen von Matthias Fienbork, Hainer Kober. München: Carl Hanser 2006, ISBN 978-3-446-20777-6 |
Reviewed by: Christoph Boyer Published by: Sehepunkte (June 2007) |
| Aleksandr Fursenko / Timothy Naftali. Khrushchev's Cold War. The Inside Story of an American Adversary, New York: W.W. Norton & Company 2006, ISBN 978-0-393-05809-3 |
Reviewed by: Andreas Hilger, Hamburg Published by: Sehepunkte (June 2007) |
Igor Lukes. “The Czechoslovak Special Services and Their American Adversary during the Cold War.” The Journal of Cold War Studies 9.1 (Winter 2007): 3-28. |
Reviewed by: Peter Bridges, former U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Published by: H-Soz-u-Kult (June 2007) |
| Martin Burkhardt. Arbeiten im Archiv. Praktischer Leitfaden für Historiker. Stuttgart: UTB 2006. 136 S. €12.90. ISBN 3-8252-2803-7 |
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Henning Türk. Die Europapolitik der Großen Koalition 1966-1969. München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2006. ISBN 3-486-58088-4 |
Reviewed by: Ursula Rombeck-Jaschinski, History Dept., Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Published by: H-Soz-u-Kult (April 2007) |
Kenneth Osgood. Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2006. |
Published by: H-Diplo (March 2007) |
Kathryn Statler and Andrew Johns, eds. The Eisenhower Administration, The Third World, and Globalization. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. |
Published by: H-Diplo (March 2007) |
Robert Beisner. Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. |
Published by: H-Diplo (March 2007) |
Hans-Hermann Hertle und Konrad Jarausch, eds. Risse im Bruderbund. Die Krim-Gespraeche Honecker-Breshnew. Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag 2006. 240 S. ISBN 3-86153-419-3 |
Reviewed by: Gerhard Wettig, Kommen Published by: H-Soz-u-Kult (January 2007) |
Bernd Greiner, Christian Th. Müller and Dietr Walker, eds. Heiße Kriege im Kalten Krieg. Hamburg: HIS Verlag, 2006. 514 S. €35. ISBN: 3-936096-61-9 |
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Peter Veleff. Die Schweiz als Aktionsfeld für DDR Geheimdienste. Episoden aus der Zeit des Kalten Krieges. Zurich: Verlag Orell Füssli, 2006. 280 S. Index. €32.80. |
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Siegfried Suckut and Jürgen Weber, eds. Stasi-Akten zwischen Politik und Zeitgeschichte: Eine Zwischenbilanz. Munich: Olzog, 2003. 338 S. Index. €19.80. ISBN 3-7892-8135-2 |
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Vojtech Mastny and Malcolm Byrne, eds. A Cardboard Castle? An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991 (= National Security Archives Cold War Readers). Budapest: Central European University Press 2005. 726 pp. $29.95. ISBN 963-7326-07-3 Umbach, Frank. Das rote Bündnis. Entwicklung und Zerfall des Warschauer Paktes 1955-1991 (= Militärgeschichte der DDR 10). Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag 2005. 701 S. €34.90. ISBN 3-86153-362-6 |
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Christof Münger. Kennedy, die Berliner Mauer und die Kubakrise: Die westliche Allianz in der Zerreissprobe, 1961-1963. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2003. 404 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. €39. ISBN 3-5067-7531-6 |
Reviewed by: Petri Hakkarainen, Wolfson College, University of Oxford Published by: H-German (September 2005) |
| Christian Th. Müller. "Tausend Tage bei der "Asche": Unteroffiziere in der NVA." Militärgeschichte der DDR, Band 6. Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2003. xiv + 429 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, bibliography, index. €24.90. ISBN 3-86153-297-2.
Hans Ehlert und Arnim Wagner, eds. "Genosse General! Die Militärelite der DDR in biografischen Skizzen." Militärgeschichte der DDR, Band 7. Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2003. viii + 632 pp. Illustrations, charts, timeline, notes, bibliography, index. €29.90. ISBN 3-86153-312-X. |
Reviewed by: Jay Lockenour, Department of History, Temple University Published by: H-Net (July 2005) |
| Klaus Behling. Spione in Uniform. Die Alliierten Militärmissionen in Deutschland. Stuttgart: Hohenheim Verlag, 2004. 328 S. €19.90. ISBN 3-89850-121-3 | Reviewed by: |
| J. L. Granatstein. Who Killed the Canadian Military? Toronto: Harper Collins, 2004. vi + 250 pp. Appendices, index. CAD 24.95. ISBN 0-00-200675-8 |
Reviewed by: Mark F. Proudman, New College, Oxford. Published by: H-Diplo (October 2004) |
Christof Münger. Die Berliner Mauer, Kennedy und die Kubakrise: Die westliche Allianz in der Zerreißprobe 1961-1963. Sammlung Schöningh zu Geschichte und Gegenwart. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, 2003. 404 S. Bibliographische Angaben. €39. ISBN 3-506-77531-6 |
Reviewed by: Gerhard Wettig, Berlin. Published by: H-Soz-u-Kult (March 2004) |
| Christian Greiner, Klaus Maier, Heinz Rebhan. Die NATO als Militärallianz. Strategie, Organisation und nukleare Kontrolle im Bündnis 1949-1959. Entstehung und Probleme des Atlantischen Bündnisses bis 1956 4. München: Oldenbourg, 2003. 453 S. Bibliographische Angaben und Index. €39.80. ISBN 3-486-56757-8 | Reviewed by: Reiner Pommerin, Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, TU Dresden. Published by: H-Soz-u-Kult (March 2004) |
| Dorothee Mussgnug. Alliierte Militärmissionen in Deutschland 1946-1990. Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungen Bd. 9. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2001. 247 pp. Notes, bibliography, person index.€39.80. ISBN 3-428-10403-X | Reviewed by: Henry Burke Wend, Department of History, University School of Milwaukee. Published by: H-German (February 2004) |
| Vojtech Mastny und Gustav Schmidt. Konfrontationsmuster des Kalten Krieges 1946-1956. Entstehung und Probleme des Atlantischen Bündnisses bis 1956 3. München: Oldenbourg, 2003. 580 S. Bibliographische Angaben und Index. €44.80. ISBN 3-486-56732-2 | Reviewed by: Jan Foitzik, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Aussenstelle Berlin. Published by: H-Soz-u-Kult (January 2004) |
| Sheldon M. Stern. Averting 'The Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings. Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xxx + 459 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35. ISBN 0-8047-4846-2 | Reviewed by: James Eichsteadt, Department of History, Syracuse University. Published by: H-Peace (January 2004) |
| Csaba Bekes, Malcolm Byrne, Janos Rainer, eds. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents. National Security Archive Cold War Readers. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2002. 598 pp. Bibliographical references illustrations. $67.95. ISBN 963-9241-48-2 | Reviewed by: Johanna Granville, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Published by: HABSBURG (October 2003) |
| Christoph Bluth. The Two Germanies and Military Security in Europe. Cold War History Series. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. viii + 276 pp. Acknowledgments, text, notes, bibliography, index. $72. ISBN 0-333-96893-x | Reviewed by: Henry Burke Wend, Division of Social Sciences, College of General Studies, Boston University. Published by: H-German (June 2003) |
| John Gearson and Kori Schake, eds. The Berlin Wall Crisis: Perspectives on Cold War Alliances. Cold War History Series. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xxi + 209 pp. Notes index. $65. ISBN 0-333-92960-8 | Reviewed by: David Sheinin, Department of History, Trent University Berlin. Published by: H-Diplo (March 2003) |
| John P. S. Gearson and Kori Schake, eds. The Berlin Wall crisis: perspectives on Cold War alliances. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2002. 232 pp. Index. £45. ISBN 0-333-92960-8 | Reviewed by: Victor Mauer, Center for Security Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland. Published by: International Affairs, Nr. 79 (2003) |
| Wolfram Dorn. So heiss war der Kalte Krieg. Fallex 66. Köln: Dittrich Verlag, 2002. 185 S. Bibliographie. €19. ISBN 3-920862-39-2 |
Reviewed by: Christian Th. Müller, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam. Published by: H-Soz-u-Kult (October 2002) |
| Aloysius Balawyder. In the Clutches of the Kremlin: Canadian-East European Relations, 1945-1962. East European Monographs. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. 192 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $36. ISBN 0-88033-444-4 | Reviewed by: Robin S. Gendron, Department of History, University of Minnesota. Published by: H-Diplo (August 2002) |
| Gustav Schmidt, ed. A History of NATO: The First Fifty Years. Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. 1433 pp. (three volumes). $350. ISBN 033396277X | Reviewed by: Nicholas Sherwen, NATO's Office of Information and Press Published by: NATO Review (August 2002) |
| Marc Trachtenberg. A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement 1945-1963. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. xi + 402 pp. Abbreviations, bibliographical references, index. $65 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-00183-9; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-691-00273-8 |
Reviewed by: Diane Shaver Clemens, University of California, Berkeley. Published by: H-Diplo (August 2000) |
| Miklos Kun. Prague Spring--Prague Fall: Blank Spots of 1968. Translated by Hajnal Csatorday. English text edited by Peter Tamasi. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1999. xii + 252 pp. Chronology, notes, bibliography and index. $60. ISBN 963-05-7608-2 |
Reviewed by: Bradley F. Abrams, Department of History, Columbia University. Published by: HABSBURG (May 2000) |
| Jeno Gyorkei and Miklos Horvath, eds. Soviet Military Intervention in Hungary, 1956. Trans Emma Roper Evans. Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999. xv + 318 pp. Tables, photographs, maps, endnotes, biographical notes. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 963-9116-36-X; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 963-9116-35-1 | Reviewed by: Johanna Granville, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. Published by: HABSBURG (January 2000) |
| Jaromir Navratil, ed. The Prague Spring 1968: A National Security Archive Documents Reader. Preface by Vaclav Havel and foreword by H. Gordon Skilling Budapest. Distributed in the United States by Cornell University Press and elsewhere by Plymbridge Distributors. Copyright by the Prague Spring Foundation. New York: Central European University Press, 1998. xxxix + 596 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliographies, index. $40. ISBN 9-6391-1615-7 | Reviewed by: Bradley F. Abrams, Department of History, Columbia University. Published by: HABSBURG (June 1999) |
| Martin McCauley. Russia, America and the Cold War, 1949-1991. Seminar Studies in History. London and New York: Longman, 1998. v + 154 pp. Documents, chart, bibliographical reference, maps, index. $11.95. ISBN 0-582-27936-4 | Reviewed by: Roger E. Chapman, Bowling Green State University. Published by: H-Russia (February 1999) |
| Raymond Pearson. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire. Studies in Contemporary History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xix + 194 pp. Chronology, glossary, map, bibliography, index. $55. (cloth), ISBN 0-312-17405-5; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-312-17407-1 |
Reviewed by: Padraic Kenney, University of Colorado. Published by: HABSBURG (May 1998) |
