10 best books of October: the Monitor's picks

Here, according to the Monitor's book critics, are 10 of the best of the new fall book releases.

6. 'The End of the Cold War,' by Robert Service

Robert Service, a British historian specializing in studies of Soviet Russia, delivers a solidly researched and ever-fascinating chronicle of the final years of the Cold War. Relying in part on research into previously unpublished material, Service goes beyond previous explorations of this era to deliver what may be the definitive – and most highly readable – account of this pivotal moment in world history. 

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