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Overview
The stimulating and original essays in this volume provide new insights into the NATO story, with appropriate emphasis on the organization's role as not only a defensive bulwark against Soviet attack on the West but also a strong intricate web holding together the nations of Europe and arraying the United States as guarantor of free world stability.
Synopsis
The stimulating and original essays in this volume provide new insights into the NATO story, with appropriate emphasis on the organization's role as not only a defensive bulwark against Soviet attack on the West but also a strong intricate web holding together the nations of Europe and arraying the United States as guarantor of free world stability.
Booknews
Twenty essays from a September 1989 conference at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, explore the birth of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after WWII, and its first decade of operation. Emphasizes the unity and disarmament of western Europe, rather than the Soviet menace. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)