This set includes the following: The Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance, The Hinge of Fate, Closing the Ring, and Triumph and Tragedy. Analyzes the history of the nuclear arms race, from the development of the first atomic bomb to the current antinuclear movements in Europe, the United States, and the Soviet Union. This six volume set is bound in red cloth that is faded with age, black title block on front cover and spine with gilt lettering, deckle edged and bumped at head and foot of spine. Cracked front and rear hinges on volume six, cracked front hinge on volume four, cracked front hinge on volume one, all hinges still holding. DJs missing.