In 1945, the U.S. and Soviet armies met in the east German city of Torgau as World War II drew to a close in Europe.

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She unpicks other tangles too: the tense relationship between the impatient, ill-informed underground leadership in Poland and the divided, ill-led exiled government in London, sidelined and then dumped by the allies as the Soviet armies marched west.

ECONOMIST: Poland at war

When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, it appeared that pro-Soviet guerrilla armies were poised to take over El Salvador and much of Central America.

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