Download or read book Norstad: Cold-War Supreme Commander written by R. Jordan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most glamorous and powerful NATO Supreme Commander of the Cold War, General Lauris Norstad was both a 'nuclear' general and an 'international' general. His primary goal was to keep the Alliance together as he accommodated British and French nuclear ambitions while forestalling the same in the West Germans. He also was at the centre of the political/military manoeuvrings over Berlin and the Soviet attempt to blackmail the West into recognizing East Germany, all of which culminated in the building of the infamous 'Wall'.