Publisher's Synopsis
The Cold War was more than a contest between the United States and the Soviet Union since World War II. It was a clash of civilizations that lasted for over 70 years. Communism was (is) possibly the most horrific political system devised by man, responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people and the enslavement of even more. This book explores the stages of the conflict in a way that few have done before. Many excellent individual works have appeared since the end of the Cold War focusing on specific events such as the Berlin Blockade or the Cuban Missile Crisis, but this one ties them all together and puts them in context of the broader struggle.
