

"The history of the Cold War has been the history of the world since 1954."


The history of the Cold War is the history of the world since 1945. Now that we think it is over, we have to make sense of what the Cold War was, how it shaped us, and the uncertain new world that lies ahead. In remarkably fresh and spritely writing style, journalist Martin Walker...

Martin Walker's account of over forty years of global confrontation between the US and Russia is a masterly narrative of the Cold War's twists and turns by a journalist who was a first-hand witness to its close. Immaculately researched, drawing upon both the vast of historical...
