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Reviewed on November 15, 2005
Both of these books treat the Cold War without stepping on each other's toes. Gaddis (history, Yale Univ.; Surprise, Security, and the American Experience) is one of the foremost scholars on the Cold War, having written a number of seminal treatments of the frigid conflict. In this new synthesis he brings to bear over 30 years of thinking and writing about the Cold War and presents the reader, general and specialist alike, with an outstanding and tightly written account of the titanic struggle between the two major world powers that arose after World War II. Gaddis has a sure unde...Log In or Sign Up to Read More