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1.		The Cold War: A New History from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $8.80 Customer Review: I bought this book because I was interested in a quick overview of the Cold War, from which I could choose other books to fill in the gaps on topics that I find interest me. In that respect, it is a decent book, and I have purchased two other books to continue learning ('The Making of a Counter... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $9.24 Customer Review: This book is an entertaining and easily readable book about how historians map that unusual and mysterious landscape known as the past. Examining the relationships between history and the 'hard' sciences and how their methods have become joined over the course of the 20th and early 21st centuries,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (A Council on Foreign Relations Book) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $11.90 Customer Review: analysis is just as much about strategic decisions of leaders in authoritarian states verus democracies as it is regarding specific event of the Cold War. The over-arching discussion and chapter organizations make for coherent following of the 40 year history.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $10.00 Customer Review: Gaddis' masterpiece is a classic that deserves all the accolades it receives. It is the type of work that demands that all other scholarship on the subject engage it, whether in agreement or in dispute. The updated edition completes the author's analysis of the Cold War. Highest recommendation.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (The Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lectures on American Civilization and Government) from Harvard University Press Price: $9.99 Customer Review: This book is an absolute must for anyone interested in the American foreign policy and grand strategy. Gaddis focuses on three great strategy surprise (the sacking of Washington during the War of 1812, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11) and three men who were forced by these events to redefine American grand... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $59.99 Customer Review: Gaddis examines the nature of history and the function of historians through a wide range of metaphors. By putting forth the question: How long is the British coast line? Gaddis immediately sets out that if we measure in miles we won't get to the alcoves and cubbyholes and we'll probably end up with... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $5.99	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		The United States and the Origins of the Cold War 1941-1947 from Columbia University Price: $75.00 Customer Review: I didn't read this book, but from the other reviews, I gather that there is no chapter describing the origin of Anti-Communism with Woodrow Wilson. I would have to agree that scholars should look beyond the post WWII period for the origins of the Cold War.	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		Order and Justice in International Relations from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $85.11	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		The Long Peace: Inquiries Into the History of the Cold War from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $0.80 Customer Review: Many historians have taken the viewpoint that the Cold War was a great time of strife and conflict and that we were merely a second away from total war with the Soviet Union. Although there was never any formal war between the Soviet Union and the United States, we nonetheless were in conflict in... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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