The Dead Hand goes to print

Posted on 2010/12/20 , tagged as

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One of the most exciting books to be published by Icon in the spring season next year is David E. Hoffman’s The Dead Hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and the Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race.

The book won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2010 and rightly so – it’s a fantastically-paced investigative history of the final decade of the Cold War and the remarkable individuals who worked to bring to a halt the arms race that, even in the 1980s, could have brought the world to Armageddon.

John le Carré, no less, described it as a ‘stunning feat of research and narrative’ and this is what the New York Times had to say about it:

‘Authoritative and chilling … a readable, many-tentacled account of the decades-long military standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union … The Dead Hand is deadly serious, but this story can verge on pitch-black comedy – Dr. Strangelove as updated by the Coen Brothers.’

We’ve just sent the book to print and the full cover is below – just click to see a bigger version. More details about it are here – it’s published at the start of February.