Publisher | Penguin Books |
ISBN 13 | 9780143038276 |
ISBN 10 | 143038273 |
Book Description | Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the author provides a thrilling account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age. The work is rich with illuminating portraits of its major personalities and fresh insi |
About the Author | John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History of Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including On Grand Strategy, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (1972); Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security (1982); The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987); We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997); The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002); and Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2004). |
Language | English |
Author | John Lewis Gaddis |
Publication Date | 2006-12-26 |
Number of Pages | 352 pages |
The Cold War: A New History