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    The Cold War : A World

    History
    By
    Odd Arne Westad
    Penguin Books Ltd
    'Masterly ... a book of resounding importance for appraising our
    global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-
    Hines, The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year

    'A masterful survey that will set the standard for Cold War
    scholarship for years to come' Jonathan Steele, London Review of
    Books

    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 Westad's 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.
    Penguin Books Ltd

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