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(0)John Lewis Gaddis
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
It began during the Second World War, when American and Soviet troops converged from east and west. Their meeting point - a small German city - became part of a front line that solidified shortly thereafter into an Iron Curtain. It ended in a climactic square-off between Ronald Reagan's America and Gorbachev's Soviet Union. In between were decades of global confrontation, uncertainty, and fear. Drawing on new and often startling information from newly...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
1360L
Physical Desc
xii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while...
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
x, 425 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Did the Soviet Union want world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective. Based on the latest findings of Cold War historians and extensive research in American archives as well as the recently opened archives in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China,...