{"product_id":"1972-the-longest-year-in-liora-bennett-9798231096695","title":"1972, The Longest Year in History, Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003e1972: The Longest Year in History, Volume 2\u003c\/em\u003e, Blake Lee Mahon plunges the reader into the heart of a world unravelling between May and August of the most pivotal year of the twentieth century. This volume chronicles a season where détente and destruction walked side by side-while Nixon signed arms control treaties in Moscow, American warplanes unleashed the heaviest bombing of the Vietnam War, mining Haiphong Harbor and igniting Operation Linebacker. The global stage was a paradox: superpowers promised peace at the nuclear level while fueling proxy wars below. At the same time, terrorism gained a new vocabulary-the Japanese Red Army and PFLP at Lod Airport, the IRA's Bloody Friday, and impending tragedy in Munich-proving that attention had become the most valuable weapon. The world's leaders negotiated survival in marble halls while cities, airports, and Olympic villages became battlefields of ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet this was also a season of profound transformation and fragile hope. The first Earth Summit in Stockholm gave voice to the planet itself, inaugurating a global environmental conscience, while Title IX and landmark court rulings redefined justice and equality. Idi Amin's brutal expulsion of Uganda's Asian community revealed how quickly a nation could be remade through cruelty and decree. Above the chaos, machines rose: Venera 8 pierced the violent atmosphere of Venus, and Landsat 1 looked back at Earth, forcing humanity to confront the damage it could no longer deny. And as Munich prepared to welcome the world with glass, hope, and innocence, a darker truth lurked-the world had learned to see everything, but not yet to protect it. This is the story of a year that refused to end, a summer where history did not unfold-it detonated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Liora Bennett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798231096695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blake Lee Mahon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Liora Bennett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852655931647,"sku":"9798231096695","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/1972-the-longest-year-in-liora-bennett-9798231096695","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}