Now in its third edition, Cold War provides an accessible and comprehensive account of the decades-long conflict between two nuclear-armed Superpowers during the twentieth century.

Carole K. Fink is Humanities Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at The Ohio State University, USA. She is an award-winning author, editor, and translator of 15 books, including West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics, and the Cold War, 1965-1974 (2019) and Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938 (2006).

0. Introduction 1. Soviet Russia and the West, 1917-1941 2. The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 3. Cold War, 1945-1952 4. The Widening Conflict, 1953-1963 5. The Sixties 6. Détente, 1969-1975 7. Detente Collapses, 1975-1980 8. The Second Cold War, 1981-1985 9. The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991 10. Aftermath: A New World Disorder 11. Conclusion