Afghanistan: How not to end a war
President Medvedev has offered to help the west's faltering Afghan campaign—but both parties must heed the lessons from the Soviet army’s disastrous withdrawal in the 1980s
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How we beat the commies
Norman Stone’s marvellously venomous, myopic history of the cold war awards some surprising medals, but never fails to entertain -
The accidental hero of 1989
Twenty years after the wall fell, Mikhail Gorbachev is quietly celebrated in the west, but shunned in Moscow. Yet in both places his reputation rests on his failure to reform the dying system in which he truly believed
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