Living the Cold War : Memoirs of a British Diplomat by Christopher Mallaby...

The centrepiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and France, is the unification of Germany in 1990, the culmination of years of work by Sir Christopher and his colleagues.\nHe held different views from the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.\nHe saw unification as the key to ending the Cold War with a peaceful victory for the West and the liberation of millions in eastern and central Europe from Soviet control.\nShe disliked the Germans and opposed unification. Christopher Mallaby writes vividly of many other people, places and events.\nHe and his wife were a young couple in Moscow during the Cuba crisis, and knew they might be destroyed by American nuclear weapons.\nHe explains why Khrushchev took such a huge risk and why he yielded to President Kennedy. 'Living the Cold War' describes the work of diplomats and leaders on many other fronts, from dealing with the threat of the Soviet Union to Britain's attempt to persuade Argentina to witd