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Forget the victory-parade version of the Cold War. 20 Cold War Myths Shattered: The Lies That Fueled a Global Standoff takes a scalpel to the stories that still shape how Americans see Moscow, NATO and nuclear brinkmanship.
Did Reagan single-handedly defeat communism, did the conflict end overnight in 1991, were we a few lucky seconds from World War III dozens of times, and did simple containment or even Pepsi win the day?
Drawing on declassified archives, National Security Archive collections, Politburo minutes and leading historians, Miguel Thornton shows how propaganda, budget politics and pop culture created comforting myths about a long, messy global struggle. If you want to argue about the Cold War with documents instead of slogans, this is where to start.Book information
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History, Politics and Government
