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Can I read The Cold War on EtoBox?
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis; Penguin is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Cold War about?
Many will remember what it was like to live under the shadow of the Cold War, the ever-present anxiety that at some point, because of some miscalculation or act of hubris, we might find ourselves in the middle of a nuclear holocaust—a war that , if we survived it, would change our lives and our planet forever. How did this terrible conflict arise? How did wartime allies so quickly become deadly foes after 1945 and divide the world into opposing camps, each armed to the teeth? And how, suddenly, did it all come to an end? Only now that the Cold War has been over for fifteen years can we begin to find a convincing perspective on it. John Lewis Gaddis’s masterly book is the first full, major history of the whole conflict and explains not just what happened, but why it happened—why the Soviet Union brutally repressed rebellion in East Germany, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia; how Kennedy and Khrushchev confronted each other over the Cuban Missile Crisis; why Nixon and Mao Zedong sought wary friendship; what, at the end, John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Mikhail Gorbachev each thought they were doing. Gaddis has synthesised all the most recent scholarship, but has also use
Who reads The Cold War?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Lewis Gaddis; Penguin
- Publisher
- Penguin Books; Penguin
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141025322
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (197 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14