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The Cold War: A New History
Ever wonder how two superpowers managed to stare each other down for nearly half a century without blowing the whole planet to smithereens? Spoiler: it wasn’t just luck or paranoia. John Lewis Gaddis’s take on the Cold War peels back the drama to reveal a tangled mess of ideology, ego, and nuclear brinkmanship — all dressed up as a global chess game that shaped the world we live in today.
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