While there are many books that deal with Brandt's foreign policy as West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt and International Relations is the only book to deal with Brandt's politics as elder statesman
Both historians and the general public continue to be infatuated with the end of the Cold War, which was marked by the liberation of Eastern Europe from Soviet rule in 1989, the unification of Germany
In the late 1970s, new generations of nuclear delivery systems were proposed for deployment across Eastern and Western Europe. The ensuing controversy grew to become a key phase in the late Cold War.
