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The Cold War : a world history by Odd Arne Westad is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Cold War : a world history about?
Westad presents a daring new perspective on the Cold War conflict and how it shaped every aspect of our world, looking at both the first and second half of the 20th century. 'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines, TLS, Books of the Year As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War. For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. There was no part of the world where East and West did not, ultimately, demand a blind and absolute allegiance, and nowhere into which the West and East did not reach. Countries as remote from each other as Korea, Angola and Cuba were defined by their allegiances. Almost all civil wars became proxy conf
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Odd Arne Westad
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141979922
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, World History
- Rating
- 4.29 / 5 (33 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14