Cruel Peace: Living Through the Cold War

by Fred Inglis

xx 492p hardback, dustjacket, index, bibliography, excellent copy

512 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Fred Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Previously Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick, he has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and Visiting Fellow Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.

Reviews

[Jeff]

A tedious, anti-American, apology for socialism, rife with factual errors, some of which should have been caught at the time, others that are obvious from information that came out in the 90s and the early years of this century. The most ludicrous part is his repeated attempts to paint America as having been morally equivalent of the USSR, that the Cold War was just two "totalitarian" systems duking it out.

While there are some useful nuggets, they can be found any in comparable Cold War history, without all of the problems and without the Leftist rants.

Avoid.