It is a daunting challenge to account for nearly a half-century of East-West relations in 250 pages (excluding notes and bibliography), but The Cold War is equal to the task, providing a dense, easy-to-read and brilliant narrative of the 43 years of global struggle between the East and the West from 1946 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The book's overall tone, and the balanced way in which it identifies the Cold War's main turning points, are well taken: it is neither triumphant nor complacent, nor is it an indictment of any side.
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