The Cold War - Brossura

Gaddis, John Lewis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141025328 ISBN 13: 9780141025322

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2007

Riassunto

A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction.

In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning...

Here is the truth behind every spy thriller you've read: why America and the Soviet Union became locked in a deadly stalemate; how close we came to nuclear catastrophe; what was really going on in the minds of leaders from Stalin to Mao Zedong, Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev, how secret agents plotted and East German holidaymakers helped the Berlin Wall fall. It is a story of crisis talks and subterfuge, tyrants and power struggles - and of ordinary people changing the course of history.

'Gripping'
  Len Deighton

'Superb ... brimful of racy incident'
  Independent on Sunday

'A lively and readable history'
  The Times

'Force 9 on the Richter scale'
  Spectator

John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University, and 'the dean of cold war historians' (The New York Times). He is the author of numerous books, including Security and the American Experience, the book recently pressed on his cabinet and senior security staff by President Bush.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett
Professor of History at Yale University and
was the founding director of the Brady-
Johnson Program in Grand Strategy.
His previous books include The United
States and the Origins of the Cold War;
Strategies of Containment; The Landscape
of History; Surprise, Security, and the
American Experience; and The Cold War.
The New York Times calls him 'the dean
of Cold War historians'. He has won two
undergraduate teaching awards at Yale
and was a 2005 recipient of the National
Humanities Medal. His George F. Kennan:
An American Life won the 2012 Pulitzer
Prize in Biography.

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Book by Gaddis John Lewis

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0141025328
• ISBN 13: 9780141025322
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352