This is the map the armies of 1945 left behind — and the forty-six-year argument about what to do with it. Two powers that had never planned to run the world found themselves holding halves of it, armed, within four years, with weapons that made war between them a form of suicide. So they fought everywhere except each other: with airlifts and walls, coups and embargoes, proxies and space shots — and, in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Angola, with other people’s lives.
Twelve chapters follow the standoff from Potsdam to the lowering of the red flag — watch the colors advance, split and collapse; scrub the timeline; interrogate any country; and sit the Field Exam when you think you can read the world the way the situation rooms did.
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