THE COLD WAR

The stories draw on interviews with ordinary people who happened to be present at key events-some as spectators, some as actors, some as unwitting chroniclers. Accounts describe waiting for food drops during the Berlin Blockade, being a Japanese fisherman affected by H-bomb testing, fleeing with one’s family during the Korean War, being a child of a victim of McCarthy’s Red Scare, and more. The result is a kaleidoscope of wide-reaching reports, covering the full geographical and historical reach of the conflict, that are variously distressing and joyful but always intensely intimate.