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"Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers, here is the untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history--the end of the Cold War. The end of the Cold War was the greatest shock to international affairs since World War II. In that perilous moment, Saddam Hussein chose to invade Kuwait, China cracked down on its own pro-democracy protesters, and regimes...

Articles from the archives of "The New York Times" and the author's first-hand account of an historic moment in European history relate the division of Berlin after World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Presents a short study of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and discusses its history and why it was constructed, the Iron Curtain, and the collapse of the wall and Communism.

"Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, have combed sources in several languages, interviewed leading figures, and drawn on their own firsthand experience to bring to life the choices that molded the contemporary world. Zeroing in on the key moments of decision, the might-have-beens, and the human beings working through them, they explore both what happened and what could have happened, to show how one world...