The Cambridge History of the Cold War (Volume 3)

Whilst I have no reservations about 5*, I was more conscious of variability in the quality of the constituent essays than I had been in either of volumes 1 & 2.The penultimate essay in volume 3 "An Incredibly Swift Transition" strikes me as a masterpiece and there are several others which I also rate extremely highly. There are a few others, though, which strike me as being less well written, of questionable relevance and/or of questionable objectivity.I was more conscious of this in volume 3 than I had been in either of the first two volumes.However, this does not in any way endanger my 5* evaluation either of this individual volume or of the set as a whole. Both the volume and the set achieve their goals superbly.