John Lewis Gaddis

Evaluates the second half of the twentieth century in light of its first fifty years, chronicling how the world transformed from a dark era of international communism and nuclear weapons to a time of political and economic freedom. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

A New History

The Cold War

Kyle S

As someone very facinated in the Cold War but had never lived through it this was a terrific book to read. The whole thing is written like a TLDR of the era and does a great job covering both the Soviet and the American leadership in roughly equal screen time. If you're looking for an abridged history of the Cold War this is the book for you.

Jeffrey Jose

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Audrey Kalman

In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International communism seemed everywhere on the offensive: all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp; America's monopoly on nuclear weapons was a thing of the past; and Mao's forces had assumed control over the world's most populous country. The story of the previous five decades was one of the worst fears confirmed, and there seemed as of 1950 little sign, at least to the West, that the next fifty years would be any less dark. In fact, of course, the century's end brought the widespread triumph of political and economic freedom over its ideological enemies. In The Cold War, John Lewis Gaddis makes a major contribution to our understanding of this epochal story.

The Cold War A New History

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