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Loading... The Cold War: A New Historyby John Lewis Gaddis
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A fascinating book for anyone who kind of lived through this period (born in '77 me so missed the best bits) and wants to understand the forces that shaped the outcome of the cold war. (  ) willyp7 | Aug 13, 2009 |  This was a fascinating and accessible history of the Cold War written by a professor as requested by his students. It is written in the style of a very interesting spy/war/political novel -- except it's real! Thanks for a gem of a book! (  ) jocraddock | Jul 25, 2009 | A good read, but it did feel very biased to the US perspective. Not too surprising though, the winner generally gets to write the history books. (  ) moss_icon | Mar 4, 2009 | A genuinely eye-opening history of the Cold War. Gaddis focuses on an analysis of the key personalities, the politics and the social upheavals of the times using extensive contemporary voices. A little too certain of the pivotal role played by Reagan but an ultimately uplifting vision of the success of the Cold War itself in preventing total war. ( ) pierthinker | Dec 13, 2008 | This is an excellent, even-handed, short history of the Cold War by one of the preeminent scholars of that conflict. You’ll almost certainly have learned something you didn’t already know by the end. ( ) wanack | Jun 28, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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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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