In 1972: The Longest Year in History, Volume 2, Blake Lee Mahon plunges the reader into the heart of a world unravelling between May and August of the most pivotal year of the twentieth century. This volume chronicles a season where détente and destruction walked side by side—while Nixon signed arms control treaties in Moscow, American warplanes unleashed the heaviest bombing of the Vietnam War, mining Haiphong Harbor and igniting Operation Linebacker. The global stage was a parad...