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Title: At the Abyss : An Insider's History of the Cold War by THOMAS REED ISBN: 0-89141-821-0 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 09 March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Eye opener
Comment: I just finished reading At The Abyss and found it captivating. I greatly appreciated the insider view of the many events ( and key people) that filled both my childhood and early adult life. As a youngster and a young man at that time, many of the early events described in this book are etched in my memory, but they had very little context to them. Mr. Reed has provided the compelling details to fill in the story.

I highly recommend the book because I believe that few of my boomer generation really understood, at the time, the gravity of the ongoing cold war struggle with the Soviet Union, so tellingly portrayed here.

Rating: 5
Summary: from a Cold Warrier
Comment: Tom Reed's book brought back the memories of those days in SAC when any one of a number of conditions could have unleashed the horror of multiple nuclear explosions. Fortunately, the wisdom and maturity of the right people at the right time evaded those conditons. And the discipline of SAC crewmembers and leaders was vital to the success of the standoff.
Reed also focuses on the bravery of those few who had to risk their lives to gather intelligence prior to satellite reconnaissance development. All in all, a real eye-opener on what went on inside the halls of power.

Rating: 5
Summary: A History of the Cold War - Long Overdue
Comment: Reed writes this insider's history of the Cold War in the prose of a fine novelist. This is a difficult book to put down. It is about powerful people and their interactions within the framework of government at its highest level. Politics and poker! Bureaucracy and those who knew how to cut through it. A calculating and manipulating president's wife. Americans and Soviets exercising superb judgment at critical moments, moments that could have made for a different life on this planet had those judgments not been correct. Five stars from me.

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