The Long Twilight Struggle

By: Cohen, E. B.

For nearly half a century, two superpowers and the coalitions they led confronted each other across a divided Europe and a contested globe, armed with weapons capable of ending civilization - and the astonishing fact of the age is that the war everyone feared never came.

This is the whole sweep, told in a single volume: the breakdown of the wartime alliance and the descent of the Iron Curtain; the Berlin Blockade, Korea, and the nuclear arms race; the thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world stood at the brink; the global Cold War fought in the blood of Vietnam, the Congo, and a dozen proxy wars; the long thaw of d tente and the renewed terror of the 1980s; and the peaceful revolutions that brought the Wall down and the Soviet empire to its end.

Sober, sourced, and sweeping, this is a clear-eyed popular history of the conflict that defined the twentieth century - how it came, how it was waged, and how, against the odds, it ended without the catastrophe the world had dreaded for forty years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HB7HPMRD
• ISBN13: 9798235044579
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: E.B Cohen
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"