| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
viii, 240 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 223-232. |
| Contents |
Day of infamy: Pearl Harbor -- The boob tube: television -- The rat war: Stalingrad -- Jonas Salk: polio vaccine -- A smaller world: jet aircraft -- End of an age: Hiroshima -- Dragon teeth: the Communist takeover of China -- Cold war victory: the Berlin airlift -- Twilight of the gods: Dien Bien Phu -- America's Blacks: the 1954 Supreme Court decision -- Moon dust: Sputnik -- Eyeball to eyeball: the Cuban missile crisis. |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- 20th century.
|
| ISBN |
0402123913 |
|
9780402123910 |
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