WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
The Dead Hand is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative history of Reagan, Gorbachev and the final decade of the Cold War. Washington Post journalist David E. Hoffman draws on exclusive interviews in both Russia and the US, as well as classified documents from deep inside the Kremlin, piecing together the first full - and intensely dramatic - account of how the US/Soviet arms race came to a close, and revealing the previously unheralded collection of scientists, soldiers, diplomats and spies that made it happen.
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 9781848312999
Number of pages: 576
Weight: 462 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 34 mm
“I had never bought into Reagan’s ‘Evil Empire’ thing”, recalls weapons inspector Andy Weber. “I was a product of liberal eastern schools, I went to Cornell, but there it was. I was face to face with evil”. The year... More
A look behind the scenes into what was really going on behind the scenes as Reagan and Gorbachev faced the prospect of nuclear annihilation and set out on the road to disarmament. Well researched, well written -... More
“I had never bought into Reagan’s ‘Evil Empire’ thing”, recalls weapons inspector Andy Weber. “I was a product of liberal eastern schools, I went to Cornell, but there it was. I was face to face with evil”. The year... More
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