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The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.99A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction. In 1945 war came to an end. But a... -
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A training manual for our troubled times ... It makes sense of our world, but is also capable of beautifully crafted pithy historical judgements. ... It is a book that cares about liberty, choice... -
Strategies of Containment by John Lewis Gaddis 9780195174472
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £16.64When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated... -
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis 9781594203510
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594203510Author John Lewis GaddisFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher... -
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis 9780143132516
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £9.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143132516Author John Lewis GaddisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher... -
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038276Author John Lewis GaddisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher... -
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience by John Lewis Gaddis 9780674018365
Booksplease Price: £26.51September 11, 2001, distinguished Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis argues, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American... -
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis 9780143122159
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards and New York Historical Society American History Book Prize and... -
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis 9780195043358
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.21How 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... -
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £49.98The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective, one reflecting Soviet, East European, and Chinese as well as... -
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis 9780195171570
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £11.59What 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... -
The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations by John Lewis Gaddis 9780195085518
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £24.63This collection of eleven essays provides one of the first explanations of how and why the United States forty year struggle with the former Soviet Union has finally ended. The book contains... -
An Analysis of John Lewis Gaddis's We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History Scott Gilfillan 9781912128136
Booksplease Price: £6.68John Lewis Gaddis had written four previous books on the Cold War by the time he published We Now Know - so the main thrust of his new work was not so much to present new arguments as to re-examine... -
Teaching Common Sense: The Grand Strategy Program at Yale University by Linda Kulman 9781632260680
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.47How is critical thinking taught? How will the next generation cope with an ever-changing and increasingly complex world? These are questions that the Grand Strategy program at Yale seeks to address... -
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.84BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'It was time for a vivid, popular history of the Cold War, and this is it' The Times 'Essential ... endlessly fascinating ... to read Sixsmith is to want to read... -
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith 9781781259139
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Essential ... endlessly fascinating ... to read Sixsmith is to want to read more Sixsmith' Forbes More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And,... -
The Cold War: A New History Vladislav Zubok 9780241696149
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union?... -
Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Iain MacGregor 9781408715420
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.82With a foreword by William Boyd'Gripping and revelatory' Tom Holland'As convoluted and deadly as the plot of a novel by John le Carre, but all too real' Daily Mail, Must Reads'With a gripping... -
Strange Stability: How Cold War Scientists Set Out to Control the Arms Race and Ended Up Serving the Military-Industrial Complex Benjamin Wilson 9780674976085
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £34.92An eye-opening reconsideration of the Cold War arms control movement, showing how scientists who presented themselves as independent-minded opponents of the arms race in fact functioned as agents of... -
Wallace Stevens and the Actual World by Alan Filreis 9780691603766
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £53.05The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry, and not with the world in which it was created; deemed utterly singular, it seems to resist being read as the... -
Interpretations of American History, 6th Ed, Vol. 2: Since 1877 by Gerald N. Grob 9780029126868
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.77This collection of essays on American history reflects recent scholarship. Contributors new to this edition include Gary Nash, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard P. McCormick, Gerda Lerner, Ellen C. DuBois,... -
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 by John Gaddis 9780231122399
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond the... -
Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror by Ian Shapiro
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.35In this powerfully argued book, Ian Shapiro shows that the idea of containment offers the best hope for protecting Americans and their democracy into the future. His bold vision for American security... -
Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation by Deborah Welch Larson
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.89The description for this book, Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation, will be forthcoming.Reviews"One of the more encouraging historiographical developments of recent years has been the... -
In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy by Aaron L. Friedberg
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £44.73War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The... -
1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe - Updated Edition by Mary Elise Sarotte 9780691163710
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.051989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from... -
America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy - Expanded Edition by Tony Smith 9780691154923
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of... -
George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950 by Wilson D. Miscamble
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £65.60When George C. Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he faced not only a staggering array of serious foreign policy questions but also a State Department rendered ineffective by... -
Kennan: A Life between Worlds by Frank Costigliola 9780691165400
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American... -
How Far the Promised Land?: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam by Jonathan Rosenberg 9780691007069
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.89How Far the Promised Land? explores the relationship between overseas developments and the most important reform movement in modern American history, the struggle for racial justice. Interweaving... -
Kennan: A Life between Worlds Frank Costigliola 9780691270746
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American... -
Driving the Soviets up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961 by Hope M. Harrison 9780691124285
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £48.27The Berlin Wall was the symbol of the Cold War. For the first time, this path-breaking book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the communists' decision to build the Wall in 1961. Hope Harrison's... -
Reagan and the World by David E. Kyvig 9780313273414
Booksplease Price: £76.51Essays by seven historians. John Lewis Gaddis argues that Reagan's record of dealing with the Soviets is equal or superior to that of Nixon and Kissinger; Akira Iriye praises the administration for... -
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by Scott Gilfillan 9781912302567
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74John Lewis Gaddis had written four previous books on the Cold War by the time he published We Now Know - so the main thrust of his new work was not so much to present new arguments as to re-examine... -
Order and Justice in International Relations by Rosemary Foot 9780199251193
Booksplease Price: £55.68The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations. For most of the 20th century, states and international society... -
Explaining International Relations since 1945 by Ngaire Woods 9780198741961
Booksplease Price: £69.32History and theory are all too often treated as separate approaches to international relations. This book offers an accessible synthesis of sophisticated theory and in-depth history. The uses of... -
Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 by Piero Gleijeses 9780807854648
Booksplease Price: £49.11Based on unprecedented research in Cuban, American and European archives, this is an account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with US policy towards the... -
Reagan and the World by David E. Kyvig 9780275935658
Booksplease Price: £35.83Essays by seven historians. John Lewis Gaddis argues that Reagan's record of dealing with the Soviets is equal or superior to that of Nixon and Kissinger; Akira Iriye praises the administration for... -
Globalization and Fragmentation: International Relations in the Twentieth Century by Ian Clark 9780198781660
RRP: £61.99Booksplease Price: £47.39As we approach the end of the twentieth century, there is widespread interest in globalization which is thought to be shaping our lives technologically, economically, culturally, and in terms of... -
China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation by Jian Chen 9780231100250
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.03Through the use of recently released Chinese documents, conversations with People's Republic of China scholars, and in-depth interviews with people who were present at key decision-making meetings,...