"I'm tired of babying the Soviets" -- The American century -- The Russians: "a tsarist people" -- Stunde Null: zero hour -- Austria forgets its past -- The spy comes in from the cold -- Austerity Britain -- A performance at the Bolshoi -- The declaration of Cold War -- The abdication crisis -- Rape and pillage -- "Woe, woe to the Germans" -- "Anywhere but home" -- "This Chinese cesspit" -- Iron Curtain -- The fog of war -- Sunset on the Raj -- Refugees -- Trials and errors -- A Greek tragedy -- She'erit Ha-Pleta: the surviving remnant -- "A Jewish-Bolshevik plot": blood libels -- The war against terror -- "Listen world. This is crossroads" -- The glory of France: "resistance in the heart" -- Stalin's Turkish bluff -- The bloodbath in Calcutta -- "Half-nun, half-whore" -- The return of the king -- "Sand down a rat hole" -- The general orders: democracy -- The big freeze.;From the author of -- From the Hardcover edition.