Odd Arne Westad: The Cold War: A World History [2017] hardback ZCRAF Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama

Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama of those tense days

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Odd Arne Westad: The Cold War: A World History [2017] hardback ZCRAF Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport Hines, TLS, Books of the Year As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of