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The Dead Hand is the Book of the Week at the Book Depository
Posted on 2011/02/07 in General, tagged as
David Hoffman’s The Dead Hand is Book of the Week at online retailer The Book Depository. ‘What sets THE DEAD HAND apart from other Cold War history books is that it tells the story from both sides, East and West. It is also based on new information from inside the Kremlin, including a lot of new material on Gorbachev’s difficult decisions’ Read the full piece here.
David Hoffman on RTE’s Pat Kenny show NOW!
Posted on 2011/02/07 in General, tagged as
David Hoffman – author of The Dead Hand – is being interviewed on Irish radio at this very moment. If you’re not in Ireland you can listen in via their website here.
‘A fascinating narrative of the last phase of the cold war and the era of Mikhail Gorbachev, glasnost and perestroika’
Posted on 2011/02/07 in General, tagged as
The Sunday Times Culture section have given David Hoffman’s The Dead Hand a great review, arguing its continuing relevance for today . Reviewer Max Hastings says that ‘the abiding impression left by the author’s narrative is of the fog of ignorance that shrouded the leaders of the most powerful nations on earth as they dealt with each other…But terrible weapons are still out there, and so is a morbid mistrust between the great powers, which lie… Read more »
‘A magisterial, human, vividly readable account of a remarkable time’
Posted on 2011/02/05 in General, tagged as
Peter Preston reviews The Dead Hand for the Guardian today. It’s not just a history, though, he says: ‘As Hoffman weaves in the story of how the Soviet Union, through its covert Biopreparat agency, secretly went on with massive research into germ warfare long after Richard Nixon and the west had abandoned it, he enters a chill caveat. Gorbachev may or may not have known what was going on. Yeltsin certainly didn’t. There was no command and no cont… Read more »
‘But for the first time in generations there is now a real and legitimate fear that the British promise will be broken and the next generation will have fewer opportunities and find it harder to get on than the last.’
Posted on 2011/02/04 in General, tagged as
This isn’t (explicitly at least) another endorsement for Ed Howker and Shiv Malik’s Jilted Generation, but an excerpt from a speech to be made later today by the Labour leader Ed Miliband. It looks like the Jilted… message is starting to be discussed right at the top. If you haven’t read this seminal book – the read especially if you’re a younger person worried about your future – now is the time.
Buy One Get One Free on Icon’s Introducing series at Waterstones
Posted on 2011/02/03 in General, tagged as
This offer won’t last forever, but Waterstones are running a Buy One Get One Free offer on our Introducing books at the moment. Click here to read more and place your order!
David E. Hoffman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dead Hand – published today!
Posted on 2011/02/03 in General, tagged as
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 bo… Read more »
Kitty Ferguson – author of Pythagoras – launches her new website
Posted on 2011/02/02 in General, tagged as
Kitty Ferguson, pictured here, is the author of Pythagoras which Icon first published last year and publish in paperback this March. Her book is the enthralling story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy and the arts. And she’s just launched her new website – please take a look here.
‘The only trouble with this readable and well-researched book is that it leaves us no excuse for not being geniuses’
Posted on 2011/01/31 in General, tagged as
David Shenk’s The Genius in All of Us is well-reviewed in the Independent on Sunday. Read the whole thing here.
New Events page – The Dead Hand author David Hoffman at LSE, Oxford, Birmingham
Posted on 2011/01/28 in General, tagged as
Icon Books has a new Events page. Click here, or follow the tab at the top of the page. David Hoffman, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning The Dead Hand (published by Icon on 3rd Feb), will be doing a series of lectures and discussions around the subject of his book – covering Reagan, Gorbachev and the Cold War arms race, as well as the role of the UK government and Maggie Thatcher during the 1980s.
