The Cold War : A New History (9780143038276)

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 333 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 213 x 20mm | 318g
• Publication date 01 Jan 2007
• Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint Penguin USA
• Publication City/Country New York, NY, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• Illustrations note Illustrations, unspecified
• ISBN10 0143038273
• ISBN13 9780143038276
• Bestsellers rank 12,071

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