Flashpoint Trieste

The First Battle of the Cold War

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Flashpoint Trieste

The First Battle of the Cold War

Description

Flashpoint Trieste is the story of one year in one city as the Cold War begins.

The Western Allies captured the Adriatic port city before the Russians could reach it, but having survived the war, everybody is now desperate to make it through the liberation. Life is fast and violent, as former warring parties find common cause against the Soviet Union and the borders of the new Europe are being hammered out.

Against this deadly backdrop of espionage, escape and revenge, the British and Americans are locked into the opening stages of the Cold War on the beautiful shores of the Adriatic, opposing the Russians and Yugoslavs.

This is the story of the first turbulent post-war year of lethal cat-and-mouse in south-eastern Europe, told through the stories of twelve men and women from seven different countries thrown together on a strategically vital frontier between East and West.

Table of Contents

Preface: This Land is My Land, June 2016
Author's Note
Maps

Part One: The Fall of Trieste
Part Two: Revenge in Trieste
Part Three: Brinkmanship on the Adriatic
Part Four: Colonialism on the Adriatic
Part Five: War in the Shadows
Part Six: The New Europe
Epilogue: What Became of the Characters in the Book

Appendix: Science Finds the Evidence
Glossary
Notes
Index

Product details

Published 18 May 2017
Format Ebook (Epub)
Edition 1st
Extent 328
ISBN 9781472821713
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Series General Military
Short code GNM
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Christian Jennings

Christian Jennings is a British freelance foreign…

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