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In this provocative book, a distinguished Cold War historian argues that September 11, 2001, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy.

Als Deutschland geteilt war und das Ende der Welt drohteDie zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde bestimmt vom Kampf zweier politischer Systeme und von der gegenseitigen nuklearen Bedrohung, sie endete mit dem Triumph des Westens über den Kommunismus. Wie kam es dazu? Wo entsprang der ideologisch-politische Gegensatz zwischen Ost und West? Gaddis erzählt von den entscheidenden Momenten und Persönlichkeiten, die das Zeitalter des Kalten Krie...

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Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind.

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Based on the latest findings of Cold War historians and extensive research in American archives as well as the recently opened archives in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China, this book provides a vividly written, eye-opening account of the Cold War during the years from the end of World War II to its most dangerous moment, the Cuban missile crisis.

The full scope of George Kennan's long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today's most important Cold War scholars. Yale historian Gaddis began this magisterial history almost 30 years ago, the result is a remarkably revealing view of a great Cold War strategist.

Beginning with the Second World War and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Gaddis provides a thrilling account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age. Now, as Britain once more finds itself in a global confrontation with an implacable ideological enemy, "The Cold War" tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand.

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 Missi...

A must read for anyone interested in Cold War history, this updated edition shows how President Ronald Reagan completed the decades-long process of the containment of communism, thereby bringing the Cold War to an end. 3 maps.

Riveting, revelatory, and wise, The Cold War: A New History tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy.

From "the dean of Cold War historians" (New York Times): an important new reckoning with the hostile relationship that defined our age.It began during the Second World War, when American and Soviet troops converged from east and west. Their meeting pointa small German city--became part of a front line that solidified shortly thereafter into an Iron Curtain. It ended in a climactic square-off between Ronald Reagans America and Gorbachevs Soviet...

What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book.