The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
The Cold War : a new history /John Lewis Gaddis - New York : Penguin Press , 2005. - xii, 333 pages ; 25 cm
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.
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
9780143038276
Brijwasi Book Distributors ;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092
History
World politics -- 1945-1989.--Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
909.825 GAD
The Cold War : a new history /John Lewis Gaddis - New York : Penguin Press , 2005. - xii, 333 pages ; 25 cm
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.
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
9780143038276
Brijwasi Book Distributors ;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092
History
World politics -- 1945-1989.--Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
909.825 GAD
