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The Cold War In An Hour
by Rupert Colley.
 From the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 the world lived within the shadow of the Cold War.
For almost half a century the East and the West eyed each other with suspicion and often hostility. Two ideologies, two political systems,
two cultures, two superpowers fought for dominance, each firm in the belief that history would prove them right.
And all the time the threat of a Third World War remained a distinct possibility, the spectre of nuclear weapons a constant fear.
This, in an hour, is how it happened.
The wealth of available information is huge, whether first-hand accounts, history or web-based, and for the newcomer to the subject this can be daunting.
This one volume, 11,000 word ebook, readable within an hour, acts as a starting point, narrating the major points of the period in chronological order.
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