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If you’re old enough to have experienced the Cold War beginning to end, you probably remember having an opinion about how it would be resolved—either we’d learn to live in a perpetual state of tension, a traditional large-scale war would break out between the superpowers, or we’d blow up the planet. Who would have thought that Communism would peter out and that the U.S. and Russia would have a common enemy—namely, terrorists—at the turn of the century?
For a compact yet comprehensive look at how the Cold War turned out as it did, no writer is more suited for the task than John Lewis Gaddis. Famous for his ability to put complex ideas into plain language, Gaddis puts it all into perspective; it’s remarkable how much information he gets into less than 300 pages. The Cold War leads you through the entire 50-plus years of nuclear standoff, charting how it began and how it ended. He shows how some leaders were committed to ending the Cold War with military action and how for others it was a problem to be solved with more subtle measures.
The Cold War doesn’t read as much like as history as it does a story, a saga of hope versus fear—one that, thankfully, has a happy ending. 330 pages, including notes and index.
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