Bibliograph

The Cold War, a new history, John Lewis Gaddis

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The Cold War, a new history, John Lewis Gaddis

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314) and index

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illustrationsmapsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Cold War

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

61303540

Responsibility statement

John Lewis Gaddis

Sub title

a new history

Summary

Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is an account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age, with portraits of its major personalities and insight into its most crucial events. Drawing on newly opened Soviet, East European, and Chinese 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

Table Of Contents

Prologue: The view forward -- The return of fear -- Deathboats and lifeboats -- Command versus spontaneity -- The emergence of autonomy -- The recovery of equity -- Actors -- The triumph of hope -- Epilogue: The view back

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