The Cold War : a new history

Summary: Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a new account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age, with portraits of its major personalities and much fresh insight into its most crucial events. It contains much new information drawn from newly opened Soviet, East European, and Chinese archives. Now, as America once again finds itself in a global confrontation with an implacable ideological enemy, this is a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand.--From publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 9780143038276 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0143038273 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780141029993
ISBN: 0141029994
Physical Description: print
xii, 333 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2007, c2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published: New York : Penguin Press, 2005.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-314) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue : the view forward -- I. The return of fear -- II. Deathboats and lifeboats -- III. Command versus spontaneity -- IV. The emergence of autonomy -- V. The recovery of equity -- VI. Actors -- VII. The triumph of hope -- Epilogue : the view back.