Taylor Downing is a writer, historian and award-winning television producer. He read History at Cambridge University and worked at the Imperial War Museum and Thames Television before going on to become managing director and head of history at Flashback Television, a leading independent production company. His books include the bestselling Cold War (with Jeremy Isaacs), 1983, Breakdown, Secret Warriors, Night Raid, The World at War, Olympia, Spies in the Sky and Churchill's War Lab.
Taylor Downing's gripping and frankly terrifying book on the
US-Soviet nuclear confrontation
*Tom Holland*
A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up
to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part
of the jigsaw. Indeed, his narrative is so persuasive that by the
time you are about two- thirds through, it takes some effort to
remind yourself that the Third World War never happened
*Sunday Times*
If you want to understand what brought about the end of the Cold
War, read this book. Downing is authoritative, and his writing is
vibrant and compelling . . . He brings to the page his skills and
insights as a documentary film maker
*Scotsman*
Clearly accessible to a wide audience, Downing's authoritative and
well-researched narrative charts the growth of US-Soviet antagonism
from Reagan's arrival in office in January 1981 to Able Archer. It
deftly takes the reader from the White House to the skies over the
Kamchatka peninsula, the streets of Beirut and the corridors of the
Kremlin, where anxieties over confrontational US rhetoric were
rising in the geriatric leadership of the Communist Party . . .
This a remarkable story, which Downing tells in sparkling prose and
in a feat of compression that many authors will envy
*BBC History*
Downing tells this grim story with pace and flair
*Guardian*
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