Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO

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The history of the world''s most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin''s invasion of Ukraine.

As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West''s democracies banded...