One title on the Barnes & Noble Review's list of five top books on The Cold War:
Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Krushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
by Frederick Kempe
The tension was palpable: American and Soviet troops stood poised to engage. A young President Kennedy, the Bay of Pigs debacle still fresh in his mind, dared a beleaguered Krushchev to blink. These were the perilous days of





