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Fulda Gap
Battlefield of the Cold War Alliances
- 373 pages
- English
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About this book
This edited collection examines the role of the Fulda Gap—located at the border between East and West Germany—in Cold War politics and military strategy. The contributors analyze the strategic deliberations of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, the balance of forces, the role of the local peace movement, and various other topics, while weaving together the history of the Cold War at local, European, and global levels.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Fulda Gap
- Fulda Gap
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Translator’s Note
- Chapter 1
- The Fulda Gap
- Chapter 2
- The 8th Guards Army of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the Fulda Gap
- Chapter 3
- NATO’s Strategic and Operational Considerations for Central Europe Since the 1970s
- Chapter 4
- The Development of the Military Conceptions of the Warsaw Pact Treaty Organization in the Last Two Decades of the East–West Conf
- Chapter 5
- The Development of NATO Defense Plans for Central Europe in the Last Decades of the Cold War
- Chapter 6
- The Defense of Highway 84
- Chapter 7
- The Fulda Gap
- Chapter 8
- The German Democratic Republic and Its Function in the Warsaw Pact
- Chapter 9
- The Wartime Missions of the Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic
- Chapter 10
- Brinkmanship in the Cold War
- Chapter 11
- When the Cold War Almost Turned Hot
- Chapter 12
- When the World Stood on the Edge of the Abyss … And No One Knew
- Chapter 13
- The Ratio of Military Forces between the North Atlantic Alliance and the Warsaw Pact
- Chapter 14
- The Alliances and the Fulda Gap
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Contributors
- Note on the Point Alpha Foundation