How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta; Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea’s ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now; he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in current international relations: the first occupation and annexation of one European nation’s territory by another since World War II. Pleshakov illustrates how the proxy war unfolding in Ukraine is a clash of incompatible world views. To the U.S. and Europe; Ukraine is a country struggling for self-determination in the face of Russia’s imperial nostalgia. To Russia; Ukraine is a “sister nation;†where NATO expansionism threatens its own borders. In Crimea itself; the native Tatars are Muslims who are vehemently opposed to Russian rule. Engagingly written and bracingly nonpartisan; Pleshakov’s book explains the missteps made on all sides to provide a clear; even-handed account of a major international crisis.
#1483348 in Books Bell P M 2012-10-30Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.25 x .69 x 6.12l; .85 #File Name: 030018770X288 pagesTwelve Turning Points of the Second War
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. An Analysis of the Decisive Events of World War IIBy Albert A. NofiA summary of the review on StrategyPage.Com:'Bell (Honorary Senior Fellow; Liverpool) has previously written several works on World War II and twentieth-century history. After providing an overview of the war in his introduction; Bell proceeds to discuss his dozen choices as critical turning points. These are the Fall of France; the Battle of Britain (with a side look at the German invasion threat); Hitler’s invasion of Russia; Pearl Harbor; turning a European war into a world war and harnessing the enormous might of the United States to the Allied cause; Midway; Stalingrad; the Atlantic Battle; the war in the factories; the Tehran Conference; D-Day and the Normandy Campaign; the Yalta Conference; and the Atom Bomb. One can argue with some of Bell’s choices; and omissions (why not Hitler’s invasion of Poland?); but the cases he does make will provide considerable food for thought.'For the full review; see StrategyPage.Com
