The Cold War: A New History
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000N3SO3O |
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| Number of Pages | : | 500 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Sounding more professorial, in the I-play-an-Ivy-League-professor-on-television sort of way, than the good professor himself, Gregory and Sklar do an admirable job of making Gaddis's learned words their own. If this leads to some of the immediacy, the heart-in-throat sensation, of the events described being diluted, so be it, for Gregory and Sklar give Gaddis's book the grandeur its subject matter so richly deserves. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Gregory and Sklar, reading Yale history professor Gaddis's study of the American-Soviet standoff, give voice to their inner television announcer, their twin brands of masculine sonorousness verging on virile parody before settling comfortably on the side of familiar voice-over solidity. Gaddis's work unravels the tangled threads of the Cold War, from the tense Allied conferences at the end of WWII to the Korean War and onward, and his book's readers give i
"The Cold War" according to Jake Zirkle. John Lewis Gaddis’s The Cold War: A New History provides an examination of the relationship of the Grand Alliance members and how that relationship changed in the postwar period. Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, Gaddis has created a compelling and succinct account of American-Soviet relations during the Cold War. Gaddis is a leading Cold War historian and he has used his tremendous knowledge to create a work that quickly, yet expertly covers the main events of the Col. A Well Considered History of the Cold War John Lewis Gaddis' book "The Cold War, A New History" accomplishes what it sets out to do very nicely- provide a general overview of the events, personalities, and issues at stake in the US-USSR confrontation. Gaddis expertly traces the evolution of relations between the two powers, their allies, and neutral nations during the period in which nuclear annihilation was an ever present fact of life.One of the final chapters, which Lewis dubbed 'Actors' deals with those personalities who, whether intentionally or not, co. The authoritative overview of the Cold War period. Shawn S. Sullivan The Cold War, by John Lewis Gaddis, is a terrifically researched, footnoted and marvelously written historical account of the Cold War. In the book's preface, Professor Gaddis explains concisely what he set out to do with this project and one, if in doubt about reading this account, should simply read these three plus pages. Gaddis speaks of the need for a "short, comprehensive, and accessible book" on the period that passes the test of his late Yale colleague and historian's litmus test of "So what?". The author ans
Their meeting point—a small German city—became part of a front line that solidified shortly thereafter into an Iron Curtain. It ended in a climactic square-off between Ronald Reagan’s America and Gorbachev’s Soviet Union. From "the dean of Cold War historians" (New York Times): an important new reckoning with the hostile relationship that defined our age. Riveting, revelatory, and wise, it tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy.. In between were decades of global confrontation, uncertainty, and fear. It began during the Second World War, when American and Soviet troops converged from east and west. Drawing on new and often startling information from newly opened Soviet, Eastern European, and Chinese archives, this thrilling account explores the strategic dynamics that drove the Cold War, provides illuminating portraits of its major personalities, and offers much fresh insight into its most crucial events