The Cold War is an accessible non-fiction account of the Tense Conflict Between the United States of America and the Soviet Union Following World War II. It establishes the causes, chronology and principal phases of the conflict while explaining the political aims and military resources of the opposing sides.
The book places campaigns and leadership within their wider setting, including diplomacy, civilian experience, economic pressure and the settlement or memory that followed. Its historical scope is represented on HBS by Cold War and Post-war Era.
