The Cold War: A New History

Written by:
John Lewis Gaddis
Narrated by:
Jay Gregory , Alan Sklar

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
47
Narrator
13
Release Date
December 2005
Duration
9 hours 50 minutes
Summary
The 'dean of Cold War historians' (New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century.

It began during the Second World War, when American and Soviet troops converged from east and west. Their meeting point-a 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 Reagan's America and Gorbachev's Soviet Union. In between were decades of global confrontation, uncertainty, and fear.

Drawing on new and often startling information from newly opened Soviet, Eastern European, and Chinese archives, this thrilling account explores the strategic dynamics that drove the Cold War, provides illuminating portraits of its major personalities, and offers much fresh insight into its most crucial events. Riveting, revelatory, and wise, it tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy.
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Rich W.

Book well we done and gave good historical perspective. Read well.

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Anonymous

Very informational

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Chris A.

A great overview of the Cold War. Focuses on motivations. Excellent.

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Christopher Z.

Narrators superb. Cold War causes and its everlasting historical significance explained quite thoroughly. Very interesting and required reading for anyone interested in studying the last half of the world’s 20th century.

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