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The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis (Professor of History, Professor of History, Ohio University) at Abbey's Bookshop,
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War
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John Lewis Gaddis (Professor of History, Professor of History, Ohio University)

The Long Peace

Inquiries into the History of the Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis (Professor of History, Professor of History, Ohio University)

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English
Oxford University Press Inc
02 February 1989
History; British & Irish history; History of the Americas; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Defence strategy, planning & research
How has it happened that the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get through more than four decades of Cold War confrontation without going to war with one another?

Historian John Lewis Gaddis suggests answer to this and other vital questions about post-war diplomacy in this new book.

Gaddis uses recently declassified American and British documents to explore several key issues in Cold War history that remain unresolved: Precisely what itwas about the Soviet Union's behaviour after World War II that American leaders found so threatening?

Whether the United States really wanted a sphere of influence in post-war Europe? What led the Truman administration first to endorse, but then immediately to avoid American military involvement on the mainland of Asia?

This is a provocative exercise in contemporary history, certain to generate new insights on both past and present aspects of the age we live in.
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 136mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   299g
ISBN:   9780195043358
ISBN 10:   0195043359
Pages:   344
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War

'Gaddis raises some interesting and timely questions ... This provocative and well-argued work is recommended' Library Journal 'Gaddis writes superbly well, no mean task when mixing narrative, analysis, personal reflection and advocacy ... Gaddis' powers of synthesis are, as ever, most impressive of all.' The Washington Post `However circumscribed the tropics, Gaddis manages to infuse into each one a richness of association, of apposite generalization, which lifts them beyond the level of standart academic treatment. he is revealed above all as a highly rational and liberal-minded observer, a sharp dissector of human folly, who is yet quick to appreciate strengths where they are to be found times higher education-august 1988


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