Crockatt, The Fifty Years War - The United States And The Soviet Union In World Politics, 1941-1991

Abstract

The appearance of Richard Crockatt's The Fifty Years War is an event in historical scholarship, for it is the first attempt to date that I am aware of to chronicle the $10 trillion arms race and all that was attendant with it during the Cold War era (1941-1991). I believe that this scholarly study will go a long way towards dispelling the long-held pervasive myth of the impossibility of writing an accurate history of this incredible era in international politics. Having been born at the outset of the Cold War, I never imagined, nor did anyone else (including Cold War experts such as Zbigniew Brzezinski and others) that it would end without a nuclear confrontation at some point and, even more incredibly, that it would end the way it did.