The War of Nerves - Inside the Cold War Mind

''It was time for a vivid popular history of the Cold War, and this is it'' - Roger Boyes, The Times A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it. More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts, and fears. Drawing on a vast array of untapped archives and unseen sources, Martin Sixsmith vividly recreates the tensions and paranoia of the Cold War, framing it for the first time from a psychological perspective. Revisiting towering personalities like Khrushchev, Kennedy and Nixon, as well as the lives of the unknown millions who were caught up in the conflict, this is a gripping account of fear itself - and in today''s uncertain times, it is more resonant than ever.

Product details

• Authors: MARTIN SIXSMITH, Martin Sixsmith, Sixsmith Martin
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.10.2022
• EAN: 9781781259139
• ISBN: 978-1-78125-913-9
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Wellcome Collection
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; History, Social, group or collective psychology, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General