Britain’s Cold War

Nicholas Barnett is Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, where he specializes in the cultural history of the Cold War.

Introduction
Chapter 1 Between West and East: Fellow Travellers and British Culture in the Early Cold War
Chapter 2 “No Defence Against the H-bomb”: British Society and H-bomb Hysteria in 1954
Chapter 3 Engagements with “the Thaw”
Chapter 4 British public culture and the Soviet Invasion of Budapest, 1956
Chapter 5 “Russia Wins Space Race”: Britain and the Launch of Sputnik, October 1957
Chapter 6 The Thriller and the Cold War
Chapter 7 Accidental Nuclear War and Anti-Nuclear Campaigns
Chapter 8 ‘The Greatest story of our lifetime’: The successes and the limitations of Soviet ideology
Chapter 9 The normalisation of relations
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index