The Cold War: A New History

The "dean of Cold War historians" (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why?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 of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in its drama, The Cold War stands as a triumphant summation of the era that, more than any other, shaped our own. more

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Posted: Aug-24-2009

Reasonable Approach to a Difficult Project

In the introduction, Gaddis sets the context for this book: the topic is not familiar to young people, and various students and others familiar with his scholarship wished for a much shorter, more easily digestible work on the entire subject of the Cold War. Given this framework, the author...

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Posted: Jul-16-2009

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...

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Posted: Apr-22-2009

Only partially successful

I picked up "The Cold War: a New History" on my way to an airport and read it over several days and several flights. As I tend to do, immediately after purchasing it I put a privacy cover over the book such that I couldn't myself see the title or the author's name or his biography or other stuff...

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Posted: Feb-22-2009

Excelent Accessible Summary of the Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis does an excellent job providing a readable overview of a very complicated period in modern history. This book is equally enlightening for those of us who grew up under the persistent threat of nuclear warfare and younger readers for whom the Cold War might as well have been the...

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Posted: Dec-29-2008

A Brief History of the Cold War. An Accessible and Excellent Read

John Gaddis has written an excellent and accessible history of the Cold War. His descriptions and comments about the Cold War through the mid-1960s were thoroughly enjoyable, though I have to agree with the Washington Post Review that his description of the latter period of the Cold War felt too...

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Posted: Dec-29-2008

Excellent, But....

John Lewis Gaddis has written a comprehensive general history of the Cold War that fulfills his stated purpose of acquainting a post-Cold War generation with the history of that era. It also allows the longtime history buff a comprehensive perspective with which to assess his own conclusions to...

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Posted: Dec-16-2008

A one sided abbreviated perspective on a complex historical time

John Lewis Gaddis presents an establishment view of The Cold War in this abbreviated book. Gaddis states that he wrote the book because his students at Yale were beginning to see this period as ancient history. But this book is not a college text despite the plethora of references. It is a...

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Posted: Nov-26-2008

A Long Hard Winter!

The title to the New York Times book review of "The Cold War: A New History" is called "Look Back in Relief" written by Michael Beschloss. That title indeed is what one could say at the end of this rather long odyssey called the Cold War. What Gaddis has done in this rather easy to read and...

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Posted: Nov-21-2008

The Cold War - Recommended

This book is highly recommended for the student and the general reader interested in an overall survey of the Cold War as it was viewed and acted upon by the United States. A book on this topic from the French, British or Russian perspective would be a valuable adjunct to reading this volume. At...

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Posted: Oct-07-2008

An excellent manual on the cold war

I want to recommend this book to any person interested in the cold war. In less than 300 pages the author gives a general overview of the events that took place from the end of the WW2 until the golpe that Eltsin made fail in the ex Urss on 1991. It summarizes many facts in a few pages and makes...

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