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Bearing Any Burden: The Cold War Years 1945-1991
Peter Bastian, HTANSW, 2003
Paperback, 156 pp.

Bearing Any Burden: The Cold War Years 1945-1991 is a comprehensive history of the Cold War. It incorporates material on the arms race and disarmament.

CONTENTS

• The Second World War and the Origins of the Cold War
• Truman and the spread of the Cold War, 1945-52
• Maintaining the Cold War, 1953-60
• The Limits of American Power, 1961-69
• Nixon, Kissinger and Detente, 1969-76
• The Search for New Policies, 1977-88
• The End of the Cold War, 1989-91

AUTHOR DETAILS

Dr Peter Bastian is Associate Professor of History at the Australian Catholic University, Mt St Mary, Sydney. He is a former senior marker of the NSW Modern History HSC, and former Chair of the 2 Unit Modern History Examination Committee.