Twilight Struggle: THE COLD WAR 1945-1989

"The trumpet summons us again, not to take up arms, but the need; not to go into battle, even if we are at war; but to endure the burden of this long twilight struggle ... "

John F. Kennedy, discusso investiture January 1961

In 1945 the Allies defeated with great difficulties German war machine while the most devastating weapons created by mankind forced Japan to surrender under a rain of fire. Where once many powerful nations only two left standing stood.

The world just had a second's respite before a new conflict began. But unlike the great conflicts that preceded it, this was not going to fight with soldiers and tanks, but by spies and politicians, scientists and intellectuals, artists and traitors.

Twilight Struggle is a two-player game simulating the 45 years of intrigue, struggle for prestige and occasional military conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. The whole world is the stage on which the two giants struggle to keep safe their ideologies and ways of life. The game begins in the ruins of the devastated Europe when the two 'superpowers' competing on the rubble of the Second World War, and ends in 1989, when only the United States are still standing.

Kit Contents:

• 56 cm board. x 86.5 cm.
• Two sheets of indicator tabs
• A rulebook
• Two game helps players
• 110 cards plus a special letter
• Two six-sided dice

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