This is a very long book at well over 1,100 pages. That said I did enjoy it but I suspect that it was due to my age more than anything else. The book is a history of the 1960’s, 70’s and to a small extent the 80’s. The assassination of JFK, the Cuban missile crisis, the Civil Rights movement in the USA as seen through the eyes of characters on both sides of the Iron Curtain. I don’t know how relevant the book is today and think, but my opinion only, that anybody born after 1990 might struggle to enjoy this book. But I enjoyed it!!