Abstract

'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen' is the instantly unsettling sentence at the start of one of the twentieth century's formative texts. Those words took shape in Scotland, in the area served by UHI, the prospective University of the Highlands and Islands. They give Yale University historian John Lewis Gaddis an entry to his recent book about the defining phenomenon of the late-twentieth century, the Cold War. Here is Gaddis's opening paragraph:

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