The Cold War : a new history /
Gaddis, John Lewis.
The Cold War : a new history / John Lewis Gaddis. - New York : Penguin Press, 2005. - xii, 333 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-314) and index.
The return of fear -- Deathboats and lifeboats -- Command versus spontaneity -- The emergence of autonomy -- The recovery of equity -- Actors -- The triumph of hope.
Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a new account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age, with portraits of its major personalities and much fresh insight into its most crucial events. It contains much new information drawn from newly opened Soviet, East European, and Chinese archives. Now, as America once again finds itself in a global confrontation with an implacable ideological enemy, this is a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand.--From publisher description.
0143038273 (pbk.) 1594200629 (hardcover) 9780143038276 (pbk.) 9781594200625 (hardcover)
2005053406
Cold War.
World politics--1945-1989.
The Cold War : a new history / John Lewis Gaddis. - New York : Penguin Press, 2005. - xii, 333 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-314) and index.
The return of fear -- Deathboats and lifeboats -- Command versus spontaneity -- The emergence of autonomy -- The recovery of equity -- Actors -- The triumph of hope.
Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a new account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age, with portraits of its major personalities and much fresh insight into its most crucial events. It contains much new information drawn from newly opened Soviet, East European, and Chinese archives. Now, as America once again finds itself in a global confrontation with an implacable ideological enemy, this is a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand.--From publisher description.
0143038273 (pbk.) 1594200629 (hardcover) 9780143038276 (pbk.) 9781594200625 (hardcover)
2005053406
Cold War.
World politics--1945-1989.