cover image The Cold War: A Military History

The Cold War: A Military History

Lawrence Freedman. Cassell PLC, $29.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-304-35290-6

The latest installment in Cassell's History of Warfare series is Lawrence Freedman's The Cold War, a highly readable and heavily illustrated text designed to gratify the war buff, the high school history student and almost everyone in between. Political cartoons, maps, diagrams and plentiful black-and-white and color photos are interspersed in chapters that consider the Cold War from its origins in the difficult post-WWII negotiations to the 1989 breach of the Berlin Wall heralding its demise. Military historian John Keegan, the general editor of the series, has already put out more than a dozen titles (The Napoleonic Wars; Wars of Empire; etc.) and promises over half a dozen more.