Thanks for reading! Let me know what you think!

Indeed - and this is not even the paperback (which will be cheaper still).

Isn't it? There's lots of fun stuff like this in the book. You sort of read it thinking: surely they didn't say *that*?

And I am sure excited that my forthcoming book is already featuring in contemporary debates. Pre-order here: amazon.co.uk/Run-World-Kr....

I hope so!

And enjoy the read! Let me know what you think.

You can pre-order the book here: cambridge.org/us/universit.... And you use this code: TRTW20 to get 20% off the moderately-priced hardback.

You'll find tons in the book about Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, but also Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Kim Il Sung. Nixon and Kissinger are illuminated from interested angles. Lots on Kennedy too.

I was lucky to have access to a treasure trove of new materials in Moscow and in Beijing. Unfortunately, probably the last person for the foreseeable future to be able to access these materials. Drawing on these I drew some nuanced portraits of key Cold War personalities.

*And* 760 pages long! Has it ever happened?