The Cold War: A Military History

List of Illustrations

1. A prelude to the Cold War: the Berlin Airlift, 1948–9

2. NATO’s first leaders: General Eisenhower and Lord Ismay

3. NATO at work: President Kennedy in West Berlin, 1963, and the North Atlantic Council meeting in The Hague, May 1979

4. Confrontation on the streets of West Berlin, October 1961: Soviet tanks and US tanks

5. Confrontation: in the skies and in public opinion

6. The Warsaw Pact on exercise and in the conference chamber

7. Strategic power at sea: the Soviet Typhoon-class missile submarine

8. Nuclear weapons: Soviet and British

9. Land-based strategic power: the US Minuteman and Soviet MIRV warheads

10. The original battlefield nuclear weapons: the US army’s 280 mm ‘atomic cannon’ and the shell that it launched

11. US seapower: USS John F. Kennedy and USS Kitty Hawk

12. Sea power: British frigate HMS Cumberland and a Soviet Kresta II-class cruiser

13. NATO solidarity: ships in Grand Harbour, Malta, and the Boeing E-3 Sentry

14. Different solutions to the air-defence problem: the Soviet ZSU-23-4 and the US Sergeant York

15. The results of an early attempt to achieve standardization: the French AMX-30 tank and the West German Leopard 1

16. The symbol of the end of the Cold War: East German guards look on as a West Berliner attacks the Wall, November 1989

The author and publisher wish to acknowledge the following for permission to reproduce illustrations: 1, 3 (above), 4 (above), 4 (below), Landesbildstelle, Berlin; 2 (above), 2 (below), 3 (below), 13 (below), NATO Pictures; 5 (above), US Navy; 5 (below), 6 (above), 7, 9 (above), 9 (below), 11 (below), 12 (below), 14 (above), US Department of Defense; 6 (below), Keystone; 8 (above), Press Association; 8 (below), 90 Squadron, RAF, via Peter Green; 10 (above), 10 (below), US National Atomic Museum; 11 (above), Yarrow Shipbuilders; 12 (above), 13 (above), 16, Popperfoto; 14 (below), Ford Aerospace; 15 (above), AMX, France; 15 (below), Krauss Maffei, Germany.

1. The Northern Hemisphere

2. Central Europe: The Cockpit of the Cold War

3. The Soviet Attack Plan