The Cold War: A World History

摘要

Odd Arne Westad has taken on a difficult task: providing a one-volume history of the Cold War. The U.S.-Soviet confrontation lasted over four decades and had many episodes. Cramming the entire story into one book-even one that is over seven hundred pages long-is no simple thing. Westad made his task even harder by taking an international focus and starting his coverage in the 1890s, with the politicization of the confrontation between labor and capital.