Facing the bear : Scotland and the cold war / Trevor Royle
Language: English
Published by Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2019
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 320 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-294) and index. Contents; Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Picture Credits -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Saxa Vord -- 1. Last Shots, First Shots -- 2. When Cold War Became Hot War -- 3. The Yanks Are Coming -- 4. Frontline Scotland -- 5. Ding Dong Dollar: Opposing Armageddon -- 6. The Past Is a Foreign Country: Families on the Front Line -- 7. The Watch on the Rhine: Scots in Germany and on Other Fronts -- 8. Ploughshares into Swords: Profiting from the Cold War -- 9. War in the Shadows -- 10. Trident and Thatcher -- 11. The Walls Came Tumbling Down -- Epilogue: A New Cold War? -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Plates. Subjects; Cold War. European history. Scotland History 20th century. Scotland Politics and government 20th century. Great Britain History, Military 20th century. 1 Kg. …
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- Title
- Facing the bear : Scotland and the cold war / Trevor Royle
- Author
- Royle, Trevor [author]
- Publisher
- Edinburgh : Birlinn
- Publication year
- 2019
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1780275269
- ISBN 13
- 9781780275260
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
In this book Trevor Royle paints a fascinating portrait of this extraordinary period, examining not just the wider military and political contexts, but also showing how the defence industry brought huge economic benefits, how CND maintained a high-profile presence, and how anti-nuclear sentiments underpinned much of the left’s thinking in Scotland and contributed to the hegemony enjoyed by the Labour Party in Scotland during the Cold War.
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