The Cold War: A New History

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0143038273 ISBN13: 9780143038276 Release Date: December 2006 Publisher: Penguin Books Length: 352 Pages Weight: 0.78 lbs. Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4" Age Range: 18 years and up Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher "Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written." --The Boston Globe "Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject." --The New York Times 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 Gorba