A long, quiet night of Cold War history: seventy short stories from 1946 to 1991, told slowly over hand-printed illustrations. Telegrams and kitchens, shelters and school drills, jazz on the radio, spies and satellites, the wall through Berlin, and the quiet people who made careful decisions on the nights that mattered most.
Chapters:
Chapter 1: A Divided World
1.1 The long telegram
1.2 Fulton
1.3 A name for it
1.4 The Marshall Plan
1.5 The airlift
1.6 Uncle Wiggly Wings
1.7 Two alliances, two Germanys
Chapter 2: Life in the Soviet Union
2.1 The shared apartment
2.2 The rota on the wall
2.3 A door of their own
2.4 The line
2.5 The radio on the wall
2.6 Six hundred square meters
2.7 The underground palace
Chapter 3: Shelters, Drills, and Suburbs
3.1 Bert the turtle
3.2 Two marks on the dial
3.3 The shelter sign
3.4 A house in Levittown
3.5 The loaf
3.6 The last coupons
3.7 A shelter under every home
Chapter 4: Voices Across the Curtain
4.1 The voice of the jazz hour
4.2 Radio Free Europe
4.3 Dizzy abroad
4.4 A pianist from Texas
4.5 An American exhibition in Moscow
4.6 The kitchen debate
4.7 Benny in Russia
Chapter 5: Spies and Secrets
5.1 Venona
5.2 The Cambridge friends
5.3 The wooden eagle
5.4 The tunnel
5.5 The bridge
5.6 A man with a voice
5.7 Aldrich Ames
Chapter 6: Looking Up
6.1 A year for the planet
6.2 Sputnik
6.3 Explorer
6.4 One orbit
6.5 Almost three days
6.6 The handshake
6.7 Falling blocks
Chapter 7: The Wall
7.1 The open door
7.2 No one intends
7.3 The street of the houses
7.4 Checkpoint Charlie
7.5 Ich bin ein Berliner
7.6 A car, eventually
7.7 What grew in the strip
Chapter 8: Thirteen Days and Other Near-Misses
8.1 The photographs
8.2 A careful word
8.3 Two letters
8.4 Submarine B-59
8.5 The hotline
8.6 A quiet night in 1983
8.7 Able Archer
Chapter 9: Talking
9.1 Nixon in Moscow
9.2 The Helsinki promise
9.3 A letter from Maine
9.4 Geneva
9.5 Reykjavik
9.6 The treaty that took missiles away
9.7 The inspectors
Chapter 10: The Ending
10.1 A new General Secretary
10.2 The round table
10.3 The picnic
10.4 The press conference
10.5 Keys in Prague
10.6 August 1991
10.7 The last evening
0:00: Chapter 1: A Divided World11:09: Chapter 2: Life in the Soviet Union20:13: Chapter 3: Shelters, Drills, and Suburbs29:57: Chapter 4: Voices Across the Curtain38:50: Chapter 5: Spies and Secrets48:47: Chapter 6: Looking Up58:07: Chapter 7: The Wall1:07:15: Chapter 8: Thirteen Days and Other Near-Misses1:17:24: Chapter 9: Talking1:26:54: Chapter 10: The Ending
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