The Cold War: A History - Softcover

Críticas

"This intelligent and highly readable history should become a basic text in the new field of Cold War studies. " --American Heritage (Editor's Choice)

"With lively prose and well-chosen anecdotes, Walker deftly traverses a half-century of fascinating material. Enormously successful as a one-volume narrative." --The New York Times Book Review

"This marvelously readable and intellectually engaging survey sees not only the trees and the forest, but the entire landscape as well.... The first major study for the general reader of the Cold War as history." --Ronald Steel

"A compact, provocative, and elegantly wrought history of the formative political event of our era by a world-class journalist-scholar." --Michael Beschloss

Reseña del editor

Goes beyond the headlines of the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, Korea, and Vietnam to take an in-depth look at the situation of the United States before, during, and after the Cold War