Title: The Cold War: A New History
Author(s): John Lewis Gaddis
Language: English
Published: 12 December 2005
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143038276
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB
Subjects: General, History, United States, Cold War, 20th Century, Political Science, Modern, Europe, World Politics, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, History & Theory, World Politics - 1945-1989, 1945-1989
Categories: History, Nonfiction
The "dean of Cold War historians" (New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. It began during the Second World War, when American and Soviet troops converged from east and west. Their meeting point-a small German city-became part of a front line that solidified shortly thereafter into an Iron Curtain. It ended in a climactic square-off between Ronald Reagan's America and Gorbachev's Soviet Union. In between were decades of global confrontation, uncertainty, and fear. Drawing on new and often startling information from newly opened Soviet, Eastern European, and Chinese archives, this thrilling account explores the strategic dynamics that drove the Cold War, provides illuminating portraits of its major personalities, and offers much fresh insight into its most crucial events. Riveting, revelatory, and wise, it tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy.
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