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The Cold War

Written by: John Lewis Gaddis
Narrated by: Jay Gregory, Alan Sklar
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It began during World War II, when American and Soviet troops converged from East and West. 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. In between were decades of global confrontation, uncertainty, and fear.

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. 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.
©2006 John Lewis Gaddis (P)2013 HighBridge Company
International Relations Russia World United States 20th Century Soviet Union
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"Thrilling....An utterly engrossing account of Soviet-U.S. relations from WWII to the collapse of the U.S.S.R....A new, concise narration was Gaddis's aim here, and he succeeds royally." ( Publishers Weekly)

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Generic cold war history

A competent telling of major events in the cold war. Something to expect out of a first year history course. The author has an obvious pro American bias. Regardless it gives a good overview and timeline of the cold war from its roots in WWII to its end in the early nineties.

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