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The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace
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For most readers, mention of the Cold War conjures images of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis, McCarthyism, and the Gulag. But although bloody conflicts broke out in Korea and Vietnam, we see this as a time of high political drama rather than wholesale destruction. Our understanding is that the Cold War was primarily a diplomatic standoff. Now, in this deeply researched and boldly argued new book, Paul Thomas Chamberlin suggests that there is something dreadfully wrong with this popular understanding of the conflict—a haunting reality that lingers just beyond the edge of historical memory. The Cold War's dead, he argues, over fifteen million in total, remain silent, largely forgotten, and all but lost to history.
Deeply necessary and important, The Cold War's Killing Fields fills a gaping hole in the literature on the military history of the Cold War by making the simple but provocative argument: that the Cold War was not what we have been told. It was a vast, bloody conflict that killed millions on battlegrounds across Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. For half a century, as an uneasy peace hung over Europe, a ferocious war raged in the Cold War's killing fields.
A tremendous work of scholarship, The Cold War's Killing Fields is the first global military history of the superpower conflict and the first full accounting of its devastating impact on societies around the world. In fact, to a greater degree than earlier conflicts, the wars of the post-1945 era ravaged civilian populations. Now, Chamberlin provides an understanding of this sweeping history from the ground up and captures the voices of who experienced the conflict as ferocious war.
Sure to be controversial and incite debate, Chamberlin's work will appeal to readers of histories like Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands. Chamberlin reframes this moment in global history and reveals the heretofore ignored battles fought to prevent nuclear war, mark out the boundaries of the American and Soviet empires, and determine the fate of societies throughout the Third World.
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