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The Cold War

By (author) John Lewis Gaddis,

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In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning… In this book, the truth behind every spy thriller you’ve read: why America and the Soviet Union became locked in a deadly stalemate. It tells the story of crisis talks and subterfuge, tyrants and power struggles – and of ordinary people changing the course of history.

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SKU: 9780141025322

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ISBN: 9780141025322

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 352

Dimensions: 12.8 × 2 × 19.7 cm

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  • Paperback / softback | 352 pages
  • 12.8 × 2 × 19.7 cm | 283
  • 25 January 2007
  • Penguin Books Ltd
  • United Kingdom

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About the author

John Lewis Gaddis

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John Lewis Gaddis is an internationally renowned historian of the Cold War and has been called 'the dean of Cold War historians' by The New York Times. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University, is on the advisory board of the Cold War International History Project and has served as a consultant on the CNN television documentary Cold War. He is also the author of numerous books, including The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (1972), Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (1982), We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997), The Landscape of History (2002) and Surprise, Security and the American Experience (2004). He is a 2005 winner of the US National Humanities Medal and lives in New Haven.

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