The war of the British succession -- Cold War -- Marshall -- The NATO system -- Communism in China -- The world at the death of Stalin -- Khrushchev -- Europe and the wider world -- Europe 1958 -- the sixties -- Berlin-Cuba-Vietnam -- America in Vietnam -- Nixon in China -- Unraveling -- 1968: a generation -- Atlantic crisis 1974-1979 -- 'The British disease' -- Europe: the Phoenix flops -- The Kremlin consolations -- Reaction -- Atlantic recovery: 'Reagan and Thatcher' -- Reagan -- Brumaire: two coups -- The eighties -- Floreal -- Chichikov -- Restoration -- 'Ending history'.