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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.

In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning...

Here is the truth behind every spy thriller you''ve read: why America and the Soviet Union became locked in a deadly stalemate; how close we came to nuclear catastrophe; what was really going on in the minds of leaders from Stalin to Mao Zedong, Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev, how secret agents plotted and East German holidaymakers helped the Berlin Wall fall. It is a story of crisis talks and subterfuge, tyrants and power struggles - and of ordinary people changing the course of history.

''Gripping''
  Len Deighton

''Superb ... brimful of racy incident''
  Independent on Sunday

''A lively and readable history''
  The Times<

The Cold War

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 25 January 2007
      ISBN-13 9780141025322
      978-0141025322
      ISBN-10 0141025328
      Also in:
      Non Fiction History Cold wars and proxy conflicts General and world history

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

      In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning...

      Here is the truth behind every spy thriller you''ve read: why America and the Soviet Union became locked in a deadly stalemate; how close we came to nuclear catastrophe; what was really going on in the minds of leaders from Stalin to Mao Zedong, Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev, how secret agents plotted and East German holidaymakers helped the Berlin Wall fall. It is a story of crisis talks and subterfuge, tyrants and power struggles - and of ordinary people changing the course of history.

      ''Gripping''
        Len Deighton

      ''Superb ... brimful of racy incident''
        Independent on Sunday

      ''A lively and readable history''
        The Times<

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