Name: History: The Cold War
Author: Keely Rogers & Jo Thomas
Publisher: Heinemann Baccalaureate (Pearson Baccalaureate)
Published: 2007
ISBN: 043599428X
My Review
This is an amazing book that everybody in my history class loves.
The book contains a huge amount of information for you to use in the exam and a great deal more. The authors have made everything easy for you, with time lines at the start of each chapter and an overall timeline of pretty much everything at the end of the book. This is incredibly helpful for when you want to revise and for getting an overall view of how things happened and in which order they happened.
Another thing the book focuses on heavily is Historiography. For each topic there are views from world famous historians which will, if used in the exam, be sure to score you more marks. The book also includes some extracts from speeches and documents which were influential at the time. This includes Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech and the NSC68 document
This book will become your Cold War Bible. It has everything you need, and is a pleasure to read.
The book is not priced too heavily either, it’s available for £18 or $15.
See for yourself! Download Samples of Chapter One and Chapter Two from Heinemann
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Contents
1. What was the Cold War?
2. Steps to the political, economic and military division of Europe 1
3. Steps to the political, economic and military division of Europe 2
4. Who was responsible for the development of the Cold War?
5. The Cold War goes global: The Korean War and National Security Council Report 68
6. The USA and containment in Asia
7. New leaders, new ideas
8. Why was Germany such a source of tension?
9. Cuba: Could this crisis have led to nuclear war?
10. What was the impact of the arms race on the Cold War?
11. Sino-Soviet relations
12. Sino-American relations
13. Why did détente end in a second Cold War?
14. What was the impact of the Cold War on the United Nations?
15. What was the impact of the non-aligned states on the Cold War?
16. Challenges to Soviet control 1945-1980
17. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War
18. Cold War Review and Consolidation
Theory of Knowledge
Appendix
Further Reading
Glossary
Index
Pros
Fantastic Content
Great Historiography
Easy to read
Cheap
Cons
It is the only history book in the Heinemann Baccalaureate series
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#1 by Joe on February 1, 2010 - 2:18 pm
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Contrary to the first reviewer, this book is decent but by no means does it deserve five stars.
The book is way too basic. It gives you a lot of content but there is practically no analysis there. The historiography is flimsy at best, and doesn’t add to your understanding of Cold War historiography. It’s easy to flip through and get a very basic comprehension of what happened from 1945-1985 but really there are much better books out there. If you are writing essays, get your main understanding from this book, but getting a 6 by only reading this book is a push, and a 7 is not possible unless you read something more analytical.
My advice is that you might as well get it but you shouldn’t depend on it.