Description: The result is a detailed study that offers much-needed new perspectives on the military aspects of the early Cold War.
Brief description: Jan Hoffenaar is head of the research division at the Netherlands Institute of Military History, The Hague, and professor of military history at Utrecht University. He is coeditor of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: Irregular Warfare from 1800 to the Present.
Review Quotes:
The Cold War has been indifferently plumbed by scholars, especially regarding the Eastern bloc. This book, with its wealth of new and fascinating information on the subject, is especially welcome.
-- "Spencer C. Tucker, former John Biggs Chair of Military History at the Virginia Military Institute"