A fascinating book from many perspectives on the ‘Cold War’ as it evolved over time during the 20th century. The author I felt has a certain bias towards the USSR but did identify the inevitable and ever-increasing decline of the Eastern bloc due to the damaging economic philosophy of excessive military spending to counter perceived threats from the West.
The book goers into considerable detail of the changing political approaches from both East and West over the timeframe and the inevitable changing consequences they produced. The fragile stability achieved during the Cold War has since been shattered by recent events in Ukraine and the Middle East, exacerbated by the expansionist ambitions of China. This goes to remind us of the mistakes made in the past and what world leaders need to be mindful of the in the future; unfortunately, lessons are rarely never learnt and applied.

Great book on the cold war between East and West - two superpowers the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies: the Easter Bloc and the Western Bloc. A reader can find a lot of interesting facts about countries and their people involved in that war, mostly from the Eastern Bloc. The book is a gem for history lovers.