The Cold War Reference Guide: A General History and Annotated Chronology, with Selected Biographies

RR 2006/440 The Cold War Reference Guide: A General History and Annotated Chronology, with Selected Biographies Richard Alan Schwartz McFarland Jefferson, NC 2006 vi + 321 pp. ISBN 0 7864 2608 X $35 Paperback reprint: title first published 1997

Keywords History, International conflict, Twentieth century

Review DOI 10.1108/09504120610709754

During the mid-1990s libraries witnessed a proliferation of reference works written by scholars and historians regarding the Cold War. These encyclopedias and reference sources often included biographies, chronologies, and short articles describing the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War Reference Guide was first published in 1997, along with a series of other comparable reference works - for example, Encyclopedia of the Cold War (Arms, 1994) and The Cold...