The Cold War: A New History Contributor(s): Gaddis, John Lewis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143038273 ISBN-13: 9780143038276 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2007 Annotation: Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the author provides a thrilling account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age. The work is rich with illuminating portraits of its major personalities and fresh insight into its most crucial events. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - History | Modern - 20th Century - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
Dewey: 909.825 |
Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.53" W x 8.38" (0.70 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
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. |