At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War

At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War

536 pages
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Published: 1 Jan 1994
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ISBN: 9780316092821

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Publication date: 1 January 1994

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This is a story that you did not read in the newspapers. At the Highest Levels reveals a hitherto secret dimension of the most momentous event of our the end of the Cold War. Beschloss and Talbott show us the vital transactions that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev made and concealed from the Bush's pledge not to press Gorbachev for Baltic independence, the manipulations for German unification, how the Soviet Union joined the Gulf War Coalition, Bush's private warnings to Gorbachev that he was about to be overthrown, and the U.S. president's secret efforts to prevent the breakup of the Soviet Union and keep Gorbachev in power.