{"product_id":"the-cold-war-a-new-history","title":"The Cold War A New History","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe “dean of Cold War historians” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c\/i\u003e—from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in its drama, \u003ci\u003eThe Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a triumphant summation of the era that, more than any other, shaped our own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGaddis is also the author of \u003ci\u003eOn Grand Strategy.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47520112541951,"sku":"*R0007931*","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/25184743482238.jpg?v=1762881699","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/the-cold-war-a-new-history","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}