The Dead Hand

The Billion Dollar Spy/i>- Waterstones'' Non-Fiction Book of the Month for August 2018.div>br>/div>div>A fascinating account of the final phase of the Cold War arms race, examining the tensions between Russia and the US, and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today. One of the first books to reveal the development of Soviet novichok nerve agents./div>div>br>/div>div>Updated with a new foreword in light of recent events./div>div>br>/div>div>Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction./div>div>br>/div>div>br>/div>

'David E. Hoffman bagged a Pulitzer for 'The Dead Hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and the Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race' (Icon Books, 11.99). The book reads with the pace of a political thriller and includes wonderful insight into the relationship between the Cold War's two central characters who managed to pull their empires back from the brink at a time when they shared an arms arsenal with the explosive power of 1 million Hiroshimas.'

Autorentext
David Hoffman is a contributing editor at the Washington Post, where he previously served as White House correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, and assistant managing editor for foreign news.

Zusammenfassung
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.

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