The Cold War: A New History
 | Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006, Paperback Customer Rating: 64 reviews Recommend |
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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.
Title: The Cold War: A New History
Sales Rank: 23800 in Books
Author: John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006-12-26, Paperback, 352 pages, ISBN: 0143038273
Package Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches, 0.7 pounds
- The Cold War - Recommended
- This book is highly recommended for the student and the general reader interested in an overall survey of the Cold War as it was viewed and acted upon by the United States. A book on this topic from the French, British or Russian perspective would be a valuable adjunct to reading this volume. At times the book reads like an expanded outline but that is understandable… More reviews
- An excellent manual on the cold war
- I want to recommend this book to any person interested in the cold war. In less than 300 pages the author gives a general overview of the events that took place from the end of the WW2 until the golpe that Eltsin made fail in the ex Urss on 1991. It summarizes many facts in a few pages and makes clear who were the… More reviews
- OK, Fine
- OK, Fine. I later find this product cheaper IN Denmark.
Everything else went fine and smoothly...… More reviews
- Well researched but offers nothing new
- Gaddis offers a concise, readable, and well-documented history of the Cold War. What he does not offer us is a "new" history, as the title promises. This book helped fill in some blanks about the most dangerous period of our history, but I didn't set the book down thinking I had a strongly different view on the event then I could have got from… More reviews
- Great condition, good buy for the money
- I was impressed with the shipping time.
The book was in great condition.
All positive feedback at this point. More reviews
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