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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 909.825
EAN: 9780143038276
ISBN: 0143038273
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: December 26, 2006
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Features:- ISBN13: 9780143038276
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Product Description:
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.
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Here is the Cold War in 50,000 words. Gaddis' ability to distill the critical information
and movements from the 40s through the 80s makes this an admirable quick check resource book,
but not a classic that read and re-read.
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This book accomplishes the goal that it sets for itself. Gaddis sets out to write a concise history of the Cold War and manages to do it in 267 pages. The book is fascinating. While it doesn't get too deep into any details (hence the concise part) it covers the overall strategies and themes of the Cold War in sharp detail. One of the most interesting elements of the book is that he describes well the personalities that make things tick. In one of the final sections of the book he makes clear ... Read More
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I bought this book because I was interested in a quick overview of the Cold War, from which I could choose other books to fill in the gaps on topics that I find interest me. In that respect, it is a decent book, and I have purchased two other books to continue learning ('The Making of a Counter Culture' by Theodore Roszak and 'Blacked Out' by Alasdair Roberts).
The problem with this book is that it has far too much of a 'good vs evil' theme. I would have liked to have seen more of a 'ideology ... Read More
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In the introduction, Gaddis sets the context for this book: the topic is not familiar to young people, and various students and others familiar with his scholarship wished for a much shorter, more easily digestible work on the entire subject of the Cold War.
Given this framework, the author arguably does a decent job. No-one could take on such an enormous topic and boil it down to so few pages without its resulting in a certain degree of superficiality and selectivity (to the point of excluding ... Read More
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John Lewis Gaddis' book "The Cold War, A New History" accomplishes what it sets out to do very nicely- provide a general overview of the events, personalities, and issues at stake in the US-USSR confrontation. Gaddis expertly traces the evolution of relations between the two powers, their allies, and neutral nations during the period in which nuclear annihilation was an ever present fact of life.
One of the final chapters, which Lewis dubbed 'Actors' deals with those personalities who, whether intentionally ... Read More
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