The "dean of Cold War historians" ( The New York Times ) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why —from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in its drama, The Cold War stands as a triumphant summation of the era that, more than any other, shaped our own.

约翰·刘易斯·加迪斯（John Lewis Gaddis）现为耶鲁大学罗伯特·A.拉韦特（Robert A Lovett）讲座教授，著名的冷战史学家和大战略研究家，曾被《纽约时报》称作“冷战史学泰斗”，2005年获美国“国家人文奖章”（National Humanit ies Medal）。著有《遏制战略》（Strategies of Containment）、《长和平》（The Long Peace）、The United States and the Origins of the Cold War、We Now Know、The landscape of History、Surprise, Security, and the American Experience、George F. Kennan。

译者 翟强 ，美国奥本大学蒙哥马利校区历史系教授。研究领域和专长是中美关系史、冷战史和越南战争史。主要英文学术专著有China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975 (2000); The Dragon, the Lion, & the Eagle: Chinese-British-American Relations, 1949-1958 (1994)。

张静，中共中央党校中共党史教研部讲师，北京大学历史学系历史学博士，北京大学与加州大学尔湾分校联合培养博士生（2007-2008年）。研究领域为中美关系史、中华人民共和国史。