Thorough and timely... as we face a new period of strategic realignments, it’s inevitably to the dynamics of the Cold War we must look for a mirror of our times... Drawing on years of research, and informed by three ...
Spectator
Why are there so few gripping histories of the Cold War? Many standard accounts are sensationally boring. This book is much better: brisk, spiky and unafraid to make provocative judgements... Zubok makes you think
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Monumental and still highly readable... by smartly knitting together the past with the present, Zubok’s book brings a prescient and fresh perspective
Financial Times
Thorough and timely... as we face a new period of strategic realignments, it’s inevitably to the dynamics of the Cold War we must look for a mirror of our times... Drawing on years of research, and informed by three ...
Spectator
Why are there so few gripping histories of the Cold War? Many standard accounts are sensationally boring. This book is much better: brisk, spiky and unafraid to make provocative judgements... Zubok makes you think
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Monumental and still highly readable... by smartly knitting together the past with the present, Zubok’s book brings a prescient and fresh perspective
Financial Times
Thorough and timely... as we face a new period of strategic realignments, it’s inevitably to the dynamics of the Cold War we must look for a mirror of our times... Drawing on years of research, and informed by three ...
Spectator
Why are there so few gripping histories of the Cold War? Many standard accounts are sensationally boring. This book is much better: brisk, spiky and unafraid to make provocative judgements... Zubok makes you think
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Monumental and still highly readable... by smartly knitting together the past with the present, Zubok’s book brings a prescient and fresh perspective