Almost (!) nothing makes me happier than conquering a bookstore and spending hours browsing the latest reads. Having done pretty well at school this midterm, my mum felt that I deserve a little treat and she let me loose in one of my favorite shops. Well, you know how much I love the hunt for new books – and what can I say – somehow, I ended up with seven new treasures. You will probably be thinking dude, that are way too many, but I just really needed them all :D.
A constant battle for dominance!
After WW II U.S. and Russia were the main players at that time and were competing about who is the most powerful nation in the world. This race in time led to restless nights for many and each country took every win they could get, including being the first in space and to the moon. One event stacking upon another, one weapon more destructive than the one before – the cold war quickly escalated into almost WW III. It was, on a sidenote, famous writer George Orwell who came up with the term “Cold War” that describes this period in modern history.
OSCAR READS 