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White King and Red Queen : How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard by Daniel Johnson (2008, Hardcover)

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0547133375
ISBN-13
9780547133379
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66167305

Product Key Features

Book Title
White King and Red Queen : How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Chess, Board Games, Reference, General
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Games & Activities
Author
Daniel Johnson
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-029901
Dewey Edition
22
eBook Format
GlassBook
Reviews
A thoroughly entertaining and captivating look at the defining conflict of the twentieth century, "an irresistible brew of Cold War politics, genius, and skulduggery"
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Dewey Decimal
794.10947
Synopsis
Daniel Johnson -- journalist, editor, scholar, and chess enthusiast who once played Garry Kasparov to a draw in a simultaneous exhibition -- is the perfect guide to one of history's most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world's imagination. The Cold War played out in many areas: geopolitical alliances, military coalitions, cat-and-mouse espionage, the arms race, proxy wars -- and chess. An essential pastime of Russian intellectuals and revolutionaries, and later adopted by the Communists as a symbol of Soviet power, chess was inextricably linked to the rise and fall of the "evil empire." This original narrative history recounts in gripping detail the singular part the Immortal Game played in the Cold War. From chess's role in the Russian Revolution -- Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky were all avid players -- to the 1945 radio match when the Soviets crushed the Americans, prompting Stalin's telegram "Well done lads!"; to the epic contest between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in 1972 at the height of détente, when Kissinger told Fischer to "go over there and beat the Russians"; to the collapse of the Soviet Union itself, White King and Red Queen takes us on a fascinating tour of the Cold War's checkered landscape.
LC Classification Number
GV1330.S65J65 2008
ebay_catalog_id
4
Copyright Date
2007

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