The Wise Men

from cwhouston

This is a very enjoyable history of the origins of the cold war and national security policy making into the 70s. It's much better at covering the period between 1944 to the mid 50s than it is for the later stuff, partly because the protagonists had a more central role earlier and then found them...

from ebethe

Very good, well written. Much more gossipy than a history written by professional historians. The book ends in 1986, before the fall of the Soviet Union, so the last chapter discusses what might have been by then had a, b, c happened before. I would very much like to see a revision that includes ...