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Almost a decade ago, when I attended a performance of Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre in Berlin, the narrative structure of this book emerged before my eyes. Wagner's idea of a network of stories that intersect and influence each other has fascinated me since the early 1990s when I first saw the complete performance of his four-part operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Its second part, Die Walküre, sparked my vision of writing a reinterpretation of the Cold War as an interconnected set of narratives that focuses on how middle and smaller actors at the regional level shaped that global conflict.
Lorenz M. Lüthi, McGill University, Montreal.
Includes bibliographical references and index.