2006-10-26 05:10:15 · 4 answers · asked by Privatize 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I'm sorry, I am asking for a book recommendation.
2006-10-26 05:14:45 · update #1
This may well be the best one available:
The Cold War: A New History (Hardcover)
by John Lewis Gaddis
"Gaddis's latest book boils down the history of the entire Cold War to a sometimes brilliant 266 pages of text, in trenchant, lucid prose intended not for historians and specialists but for ordinary readers. He has not done much new archival field work to produce this new synthesis, and, at times, he relies heavily on his previous work. Yet to Gaddis's credit, he does not merely rewrite himself or retrace the main events from 1946 to 1991. Instead, he stretches to find new ways (like his startling Korean counterfactual above) to cover the subject, stepping back and looking at the entire period with distance and perspective."
Click on the second link for some other choices, please.
2006-10-26 05:30:26 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Markus Wolf's book Memoirs of a Spymaster; Pimilco; ISBN 0-7126-6655-9, could well give you a lot of insight to how the Cold War was fought and perhaps why. Wolf himself was the head of intelligence for the Stasi, the East German Intelligence service, so you would be receiving a first hand view of the era. It might not be the best read for someone simply seeking an overview of the period as opposed to indepth knowledge in a particular area but he touches on some of the major fundamental ideaological differences between the two opposing sides.
In case you want to read around the subject, Le Carre's books mentioned in the wikipedia entry might not be a bad idea. His fiction on the period is considerably well informed and in case you wish for an easier entre, try the films made of them, the BBC's adaption of Tinker, Tailor is peerless, I well remember it from my childhood as well as Smiley's People.
2006-10-26 15:14:40 · answer #2 · answered by sdavies8 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Cold War began in 1947 and continued until
Here are several , you choose
http://www.google.com/search?q=Cold+War&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
2006-10-26 12:12:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
get the DVD from your video-store or buy it.
Doctor Strangelove from Stanley Kubrick
its fun and has the truth.
2006-10-26 12:14:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋