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The Cold War
- A New History
- De: John Lewis Gaddis
- Narrado por: Jay Gregory, Alan Sklar
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 987
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 713
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 708
Drawing on new and often startling information from newly opened Soviet, Eastern European, and Chinese archives, this thrilling account explores the strategic dynamics that drove the Cold War, provides illuminating portraits of its major personalities, and offers much fresh insight into its most crucial events. Riveting, revelatory, and wise, it tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW
- De Cordell eddings en 10-13-07
- The Cold War
- A New History
- De: John Lewis Gaddis
- Narrado por: Jay Gregory, Alan Sklar
Every American should read this book
Revisado: 04-06-13
The Cold War was essentially over before I became an adult (or at least before I became interested in the past) and I never appreciated how it has left its mark on modern America and the world. This fascinating and well researched history has kept my head spinning thinking about all of the ways my life could have been different if just a few things unfolded differently than they did. It also gave me lots of insight into how complex the decisions were around several of the topics I have very strong (but previously not very well informed) opinons on: nuclear proliferation, the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan & defense spending, China, and the list goes on.
This book does have some flaws, but they are limited and easy to overlook. Gaddis is no doubt one of the world's greatest scholars on the subject, but a few times it felt a bit too American and capitalist-oriented and leaned a bit towards hero-worship in some of the leaders he deems responsible for ending the Cold War. This certainly did not detract from the enjoyment of the book, just a bit surprising from what I had anticipated would be an impartial and skeptical history.
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Michael and Natasha
- De: Rosemary Crawford, Donald Crawford
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 18 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
He was Grand Duke Michael, handsome brother of Tsar Nicholas II. She was the beautiful twice-divorced daughter of a Moscow lawyer. Their scandalous love affair and their runaway marriage to Vienna in 1912, trailed by the Tsar's secret police, caused uproar in Russia and was the talk of all Europe.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More than a Love Story
- De Filmguy en 04-01-06
- Michael and Natasha
- De: Rosemary Crawford, Donald Crawford
- Narrado por: Nadia May
An amazing story and well researched history
Revisado: 02-26-13
One of the best histories I've read (or listened to). Extensively researched and tells a story true to history: an incredible, romantic, sad and complex story. Also a good history of WWI and the Bolshevik revolution, not from the view of Lenin or Czar Nicholas II but of Grand Duke Michael and Natasha.
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