Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period t

In late 1945, it became clear that the Soviet Union was an aggressive power. American military planners began to develop strategies to deal with the frightening

From a NATO nuclear attack on the Soviet Union to a Warsaw Pact land assault on Western Europe, Cold War Plans That Never Happened reveals the unlikely operatio