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The Cold War: A New History
John Lewis Gaddis
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The definitive short history: how the U.S.-Soviet standoff began, why it stayed cold, and why it ended the way it did, drawing on newly available sources.
A concise synthesis of the Cold War by its leading historian, covering the whole 1945–1991 arc with the benefit of archives opened after the Soviet collapse.
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