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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