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In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning... "The Cold War", the most gripping non-fiction book of the year, takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction. 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 really came to nuclear catastrophe; what was going on in the minds of leaders from Stalin to Mao Zedong, Reagan to 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…

With the skill and judgment of a master historian, Gaddis reveals the underlying dynamics of the Cold War for a new generation of readers - how politics and ideology interacted with one another, how changes in society were as important as changes in government, how concepts of morality affected (or didn't affect) what leaders did. Finally, in a work whose interpretive authority equals its narrative power, he shows how policy-makers at the top - and ordinary people at the bottom - reversed the course of history, thereby achieving one of the greatest victories ever for the human spirit. Формат: 14 см х 21,5 см.