What to read after Affirming Love, Avoiding AIDS?

In The Atlantic and Its Enemies, prize-winning historian Norman Stone assesses the years between World War II and the collapse of the Iron Curtain. He vividly demonstrates that for every Atlantic success there seemed to be a dozen Communist triumphs, as the USSR and its proxies crushed dissent and humiliated the United States on both military and cultural grounds. Even in the late 1970s, with the collapse of Iran, the rise of the oil states, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the initiative still seemed to lie with the Soviets. Then, suddenly and against all odds, the Atlantic won---economically, ideologically, militarily---with astonishing speed and finality. --