The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War - Couverture rigide

Gaddis, John Lewis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195043367 ISBN 13 : 9780195043365

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1987

Synopsis

How did it happen that the United States and the Soviet Union managed to get through more than four decades of Cold War confrontation without going to war with one another? Historian John Lewis Gaddis suggests an answer to this and other questions about post-war diplomacy. Gaddis uses declassified American and British documents to explore several key issues in Cold War history that remain unresolved: precisely what it was 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; and what led the Truman administration first to endorse, but then immediately avoid American military involvement on the mainland of Asia.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

`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

'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

'Gaddis raises some interesting and timely questions ... This provocative and well-argued work is recommended' Library Journal

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195043367
• ISBN 13: 9780195043365
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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