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...
