The "dean of Cold War historians" (The New York Times)now presents the definitive account of the global confrontationthat dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing onnewly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players,John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened butwhy—from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust ofthe Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reaganand Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in itsdrama, The Cold War stands as a triumphant summation of theera that, more than any other, shaped our own.
【作者简介】
John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A.Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. His other booksinclude We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History; Surprise,Security, and the American Experience; and a revised andexpanded edition of Strategies of Containment. He was a 2005recipient of the National Humanities Medal.
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