The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in - 196

Informationen zum Autor GYnter Bischof is Marshall Plan Professor of History and Director of Center Austria at the University of New Orleans. Stefan Karner is professor of social, economic, and business history at the University of Graz. He is also the director of the Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Research on War Consequences in Graz and Vienna, Austria. Peter Ruggenthaler is a researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War Consequences in Graz, Austria. Klappentext The essays of a dozen leading European and American Cold War historians analyze the 'Prague Spring' and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in light of new documentary evidence from the archives of two dozen countries and explain what happened behind the scenes. They also reassess the weak response of the United States and consider whether Washington might have given a 'green light, ' if only inadvertently, to the Soviet Union prior to the invasion.

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• Authors: Gunter Bischof, Gunter/ Karner Bischof
• Assisted by: G. Bischof (Editor), Gunter Bischof (Editor), Günter Bischof (Editor), Stefan Karner (Editor), Karner Stefan (Editor), Peter Ruggenthaler (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2010
• EAN: 9780739143056
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4305-6
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series; Harvard Cold War Studies Book; The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); History, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, General & world history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General