COMPACT GUIDE: THE COLD WAR

Published 30 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and in a time of increasing tension between east and west, this is a graphic account of the Cold War by one of America’s leading defence analysts. Drawing on contemporary photos, letters, diaries and official documents, the book covers key elements in the conflict such the Berlin Airlift, McCarthyism, the Hungarian uprising, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, dissidents, mutually assured destruction, and Reagan and Gorbachev.