This is Norman Stone's personal, uncompromising and provocative history of how the West won the Cold War. With wit and brio, he offers a unique perspective on events from Vietnam to glasnost, and draws on his own experiences - such as his time in a Slovak prison - to show both the tragedy and the absurdity of the struggle that divided the world for over forty years. Using his vast but lightly worn learning, Stone conjures up the Marshall Plan, the death of Stalin, Khrushchev and Berlin-Cuba-Vietnam, the Sixties, Nixon in China, Reagan and Thatcher, the collapse of communism and the non-ending of history that ensued...