David E. Hoffman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dead Hand – published today!

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One of the biggest books Icon have ever been involved with, David E. Hoffman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dead Hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and The Untold Story of The Cold War’s Arms Race is published today.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, is one of the book’s many admirers and he describes it as:

‘A brilliant work of history, a richly detailed, gripping tale that take us inside the Cold War arms race as no other book has. Drawing upon extensive interviews and secret documents, David Hoffman reveals never-before-reported aspects of the Soviet biological and nuclear programs. It’s a story so riveting and scary that you feel like you are reading a fictional thriller.’

The book is available to buy from all good bookshops, including Amazon, Waterstones, the Book Depository and your local independent bookseller.