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Article: Unthawing the Cold War.(Review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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Cold War. Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing. Bantam Press. 438 pages. [pounds]25.00. ISBN 0-593-04309-X. The Worm the CoM War Made: Order, Chaos, and the Return of History. James E. Cronin. Routledge. 332 pages. [pounds]14.99 pb. ISBN 0-415-90821-3.
Few recent television documentaries have arrived with more fanfare than Cold War. It was certainly on a grand scale with its twenty-four episodes. The programmes were the creation of one of TV's most highly regarded producers, Jeremy Isaacs, who established his reputation with the superb series, The Worm at War. Inevitably there was also an accompanying volume.
The book and the TV series have many features in ...