1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink

Author:   Taylor Downing ,  Ben Onwukwe
Publisher:   Hachette Book Group
Edition:   Library Edition
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9781549197987


Publication Date:   01 May 2018
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink


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A riveting, thrilling account of 1983-the year tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear Armageddon 1983 was a dangerous year. In the United States, President Reagan increased defense spending and launched the Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative. When a Soviet plane shot down a Korean civilian jet, Reagan described it as a crime against humanity. And Moscow grew increasingly concerned about America's language and behavior. Would they attack? The temperature rose, fast. In November the West launched a war-game exercise, code named Abel Archer, that looked to the Soviets just like the real thing. With the Soviet leader Andropov's finger inching ever closer to the nuclear button, the world was truly at the brink. In 1983, Taylor Downing draws on previously unpublished interviews and over a thousand pages of secret documents that have recently been released by Washington to tell the gripping, astonishing story that was almost the end of the world. Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

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Author:   Taylor Downing ,  Ben Onwukwe
Publisher:   Hachette Book Group
Imprint:   Hachette Book Group
Edition:   Library Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 17.00cm
Weight:   2.259kg
ISBN:  

9781549197987


ISBN 10:   1549197983
Publication Date:   01 May 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Taylor Downing is an award-winning television producer and the author of several acclaimed books of history, including The Cold War and Churchill's War Lab. He has also written for the Observer, London Sunday Times, LondonDaily Telegraph, History Today, and Military History Monthly.

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