Cold War?

[kayvee]

do u guys know of any good sites to read up on the cold war? in particularly things (reasons, events, etc.) that led up to it?

thanks.

~k.

 

[MEXCOM]

go to wikipedia. they got everything.

 

[kayvee]

i know but it doesnt hurt to ask.

~k.

 

[Hutch]

Not sure where you could find some good text on the cold war - books are always the best bet. I'd be sceptical about the library though, they probably contain all U.S authored books and are probably biast (the US was always in the right, look at how good we are etc.). Perhaps if you could find one or two books from the UK or something?

 

[kayvee]

hm good idea. thanks.

~k.

 

[kayvee]

hm good idea. thanks.

~k.

 

[MEXCOM]

UK for Cold War books? Might as well read Russian literature. I'm sure Howard Zinn (American writer) would probably be your best choice. Dude's a savage and wrote THE authoritative American History book. A People's History, he's a bit of a leftist and an anarchist but seems to be passionate about exposing all the dirty secrets that have happened during any American war. Granted this might be a bit biased (anti-US foreign policy, but I'd trust him over a Brit any day.)

 

[Hutch]

Well, OK then - maybe not UK, but still not American. I would think it's almost impossible to find an unbiast American - they either love America and support everything that happened during the cold war, suggesting that it was 'all necessary to defeat the evil that was communism' or some crap like that, or they are against the government and are hell-bent on highlighting the faults of the American Government in the handling of the cold-war. Perhaps you could read both sides of the 'story', but even then it's tough separating the facts from the fiction.

 

[iaoish]

I've read the biography of che 'Che a revolutionairy life' and there is some information about the cold war in there, not much but there is some.
How and why the rockets where placed on Cuba for example

 

[kayvee]

UK for Cold War books? Might as well read Russian literature. I'm sure Howard Zinn (American writer) would probably be your best choice. Dude's a savage and wrote THE authoritative American History book. A People's History, he's a bit of a leftist and an anarchist but seems to be passionate about exposing all the dirty secrets that have happened during any American war. Granted this might be a bit biased (anti-US foreign policy, but I'd trust him over a Brit any day.)

thanks.

~k.