1946: the making of the modern world

"I'm tired of babying the Soviets"

The American century

The Russians: "a tsarist people"

Stunde Null: zero hour

Austria forgets its past

The spy comes in from the cold

Austerity Britain

A performance at the Bolshoi

The declaration of Cold War

The abdication crisis

Rape and pillage

"Woe, woe to the Germans"

"Anywhere but home"

"This Chinese cesspit"

Iron Curtain

The fog of war

Sunset on the Raj

Refugees

Trials and errors

A Greek tragedy

She'erit Ha-Pleta: the surviving remnant

"A Jewish-Bolshevik plot": blood libels

The war against terror

"Listen world. This is crossroads"

The glory of France: "resistance in the heart"

Stalin's Turkish bluff

The bloodbath in Calcutta

"Half-nun, half-whore"

The return of the king

"Sand down a rat hole"

The general orders: democracy

The big freeze.