"In Tbilisi in 1990, I recall watching zealous Georgians smash statues of Lenin and Stalin. A few days earlier, though, in Moscow I had been invited to address the Red Army, as one of the first Brits to benefit from Glasnost. The subject they chose: The Cuban Missile Crisis."

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Sir Alistair Horne was a British historian, journalist, and biographer best known for influential works on modern French and military history.

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