Westad, Odd Arne The Cold War: A World History 9780241011317

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Автор: Westad, Odd Arne
Название: The Cold War: A World History
Перевод названия: Одд Арне Вестад: Холодная война. Всемирная история
ISBN: 9780241011317
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Классификация:

Послевоенная история 20 века: с 1945 по 2000

Холодная война

Политика и политический строй

ISBN-10: 0241011310
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 720
Вес: 1.20 кг.
Дата издания: 31.08.2017
Размер: 234 x 153
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Основная тема: History
Подзаголовок: A world history
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Odd Arne Westads daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past Richard Davenport-Hines, TLS, Books of the Year As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War. For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us.

There was no part of the world where East and West did not, ultimately, demand a blind and absolute allegiance, and nowhere into which the West and East did not reach. Countries as remote from each other as Korea, Angola and Cuba were defined by their allegiances. Almost all civil wars became proxy conflicts for the superpowers.

Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely. Arne Westads remarkable new book is the first to have the distance from these events and the ambition to create a convincing, powerful narrative of the Cold War. The book is genuinely global in its reach and captures the dramas and agonies of a period always overshadowed by the horror of nuclear war and which, for millions of people, was not cold at all: a time of relentless violence, squandered opportunities and moral failure.

This is a book of extraordinary scope and daring. It is conventional to see the first half of the 20th century as a nightmare and the second half as a reprieve. Westad shows that for much of the world the second half was by most measures even worse.

The Cold War: A World History, Westad, Odd Arne