The Turn From the Cold War to a New Era Author:Don Oberdorfer The Turn is the inside story of one of history's greatest turning points. Between 1983, when the US and Soviet Union were locked in a tense standoff after the Soviets shot down KAL Flight 007, and 1990, when the communist system itself was about to unravel and Bush and Gorbachev could meet as something appoaching allies, world politics changed... more » so dramatically that it is still difficult to grasp how it happened. Here, Don Oberdorfer provides the best answer we have had yet. In comprehensive, exclusive interviews with Presidents Reagan and Bush, Soveit foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadeze and many other top Soviet and US officials, Oberdorfer provides an unprecedented intimate look at the figures who made the turn happen and adds fascinating and invaluable new information to the public's knowledge and the historical record.« less