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A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon / Neil Sheehan

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • A fiery peace in a cold war : Bernard Schriever and the ultimate weapon / Neil Sheehan
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • New York (N.Y.) : Vintage books : Random House, 2010
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XIX-534 pages-[16] pages de pl.) : ill. ; 21 cm
ISBN
  • 978-0-679-74549-5
EAN
  • 9780679745495
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 923.573 92
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliographie pages [501]-509. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Prologue: A rite of succession Book I: Becoming an American. Ellis Island and a tragedy in Texas ; A benefactor and the house on the twelfth green ; The virtues of golf ; White silk scarves and open cockpits ; Entering the brotherhood ; A fiasco and reform ; Staying the course ; A fork in the road ; "Let's dive-bomb the bastards" ; The text on war Book II: Inheriting a different world. Atomic diplomacy ; Spies inside the barbed wire ; "The balance has been destroyed" ; The state that was Stalin ; A confrontation and a misreading ; Containing the menace ; Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor fog ; Stalin gets his bomb ; The consequences of delusion ; Good intentions gone awry Book III: The perils of an apprenticeship. Hap Arnold's legacy ; Getting organized ; Bomber leader ; Into the lion's den ; Moscow opts for rockets ; A nuclear reactor in the sky ; Low-level tactics and the flying boom ; The last tangle and an ambush
Résumé ou extrait
  • Présentation de l'éditeur : "From Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic "A Bright Shining Lie," comes the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history--and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort with the ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missiles) program."
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