INCLUDES INDEX.

The onset of the Cold War -- Battered Britain -- The French connection -- The American zone of Germany -- The British zone of Germany -- Four-sectored Berlin -- Life in the Berlin ruins -- The Italian interlude -- Occupied South Germany -- The tug of war over Austria -- Czechoslovakia between east and west -- Scarred and scared Scandinavia -- The beginnings of Benelux -- Britain on the brink -- Cold warriors at the war college.