The book discusses the period between the Six-Day War in 1967 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, chronicling such incidents as the Munich massacre (1972), Yom Kippur War (1973), the Kiryat Shmona and Ma'alot terror attacks in Israel in 1975, the "Zionism is racism" declaration (1975), the Entebbe hijacking and attacks on theaters that screened "Victory at Entebbe" (1976), Lebanon War, and West Berlin discotheque bombing (1986).