false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946581m/28432.jpg 28432 8 The &#147;dean of Cold War historians&#148; (<I>The New York Times</I>) 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 <I>why</I>&#151;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, <I>The Cold War</I> stands as a triumphant summation of the era that, more than any other, shaped our own. 832201 2005 The Cold War: A New History total:317|5:70|4:138|3:92|2:13|1:4| 317 1208 467 60 3 0 false false Mon Mar 09 05:38:44 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 06 04:48:31 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 05:38:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 15:27:20 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 17:06:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:39:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:39:00 -0800 2009 Gaddis, professor of history at Yale and the Cold War's preeminent historian, delivers a concise, readable introduction to an era about which Americans have increasingly little recollection. The author has had the somewhat unusual opportunity to examine his period of expertise both from within__in h...

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