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"Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written." --The Boston Globe

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... Read Full Overview

A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction.

1945. La guerre est finie. Un nouvel affrontement, d'une nature et d'une ampleur inedites, commence. George Orwell lui donnera un nom: la guerre froide. De 1947 a la chute du mur de Berlin (1989) puis de l'Union sovietique (1991), le monde va vivre sous cette menace. John Lewis... Read Full Overview