Dead Hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and the Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race

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.

‘A stunning feat of research and narrative. Terrifying.’ – John le Carre

‘Authoritative and chilling … The Dead Hand is deadly serious, but this story can verge on pitch-black comedy – Dr. Strangelove as updated by the Coen Brothers.’ – New York Times

Format: Paperback
Pages: 592
Imprint: Icon Books UK
Publication date: 06/09/2018