In the mid-to-later part of the 20th century there are numerous rich events that shaped history.A thousand of then involved diplomatic events that had a major impact on world stability. Hundreds of those were interesting enough that some enterprising writer might endeavor to write a book with soup-to-nuts detail with an eye toward not academics, but the casual reader. This is one.
Peter Carlson jumped into it, and for a baby boomer, this is a must read. I am a bit of a later baby boomer for whom the "duck and cover" had been long since abandoned when I was a kid, but as luck would have it, I became huge history buff of the era.
For fans of history, and of excellent writing, this is a stone-cold winner. The story was told in a light-hearted manner, in a mood that unfortunately few people experienced in real time. In those days, the world could end at any minute. Now we don''t have to pay much attention to the skies, as it takes you to a period when terrible things were less likely to happen. The world was much more stable, as there seemed to be only two entities capable of doing major damage, and each knew that they had mankind in their purview.
I also appreciated the epilogue, which was respectful of all but sufficiently brief.
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