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Title: Cold War: A New History
Author: John Lewis Gaddis
ISBN: 9780143038276
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2007
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 352
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: "Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written." --The Boston Globe "Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject." --The New York Times The "dean of Cold War historians" (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why--from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in its drama, The Cold War stands as a triumphant summation of the era that, more than any other, shaped our own. Gaddis is also the author of On Grand Strategy.
Author: John Lewis Gaddis
ISBN: 9780143038276
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2007
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 352
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: "Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written." --The Boston Globe "Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject." --The New York Times The "dean of Cold War historians" (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why--from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in its drama, The Cold War stands as a triumphant summation of the era that, more than any other, shaped our own. Gaddis is also the author of On Grand Strategy.
