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
Compelling and timely
Observer
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
Compelling and timely
Observer
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