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Cold War Respite: The Geneva Summit of 1955. Edited by Gunter Bischof and Saki Dockrill. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8071-2370-6. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xii, 319. $60.00.
This collection of thirteen essays is based upon papers presented at a conference on "The Geneva Summit, July 1955," held in 1995. It examines an understudied but highly significant event-the first meeting of heads of state from the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and France since the end of the Second World War and the initial attempt at establishing detente in the Cold War. Each of the essays contributes to an understanding of the factors leading to the conference, the issues raised, and why the conference produced few tangible achievements...