First published in 1991 as The Turn, this is the gripping narrative history of the most important international development of our time - the passage of the United States and the Soviet Union from the Cold War to a new era. Don Oberdorfer makes the reader a privileged behind-the-scenes spectator as U.S. and Soviet leaders take each other's measure and slowly set about their historic task. Oberdorfer writes diplomatic history with a vital difference: extraordinary intimacy made possible by comprehensive interviews with major figures on both sides and exclusive material from a host of other sources. Now this book is available in a new, updated paperback edition, which continues the narrative up to the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union.

Originally published: Turn from the Cold War to a New Era : the United States and the Soviet Union. New York : Poseidon Press, c1991.

1. A Candle in the Cold -- 2. The EBB Tide -- 3. The Chernenko Interlude -- 4. Gorbachev Takes Command -- 5. High Stakes at Reykjavik -- 6. To the Washington Summit -- 7. Reagan in Red Square -- 8. The Revolution of 1989 -- 9. A New Era -- 10. The End of the Soviet Union.