The Cold War books

This book follows the trajectory of life in an African island community as composed of ethnographic portraits taken...  Read More >>

“Last September the United States drew a thin curtain of radiation around the earth . . . the feat was regarded...  Read More >>

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Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography,...  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between the key concept of decisionism, as it emerged from 1920s political theory, and...  Read More >>

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This interdisciplinary volume offers a crucial new perspective on the appeal and profound cultural meaning of socialism...  Read More >>

Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this textbook introduces...  Read More >>

In 1941 the magazine publishing titan Henry R. Luce urged the nation’s leaders to create an American Century. But...  Read More >>

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A chilling reassessment of the Soviet Union's advances in biological warfare, and the West's inadvertent contributions....  Read More >>

From the heart of the cold war to the current hostilities between Russia and the West, this is the definitive account...  Read More >>

The first modern survey of BAOR's role in West Germany, 1945-1993.  Read More >>

An accessible and authoritative introduction to Nuclear Deterrence for adult readers Part of the new Ladybird Expert...  Read More >>

Communism has cast a long shadow over Romania. The passage of little over a quarter of a century since the overthrow...  Read More >>

In 1962 the Office of Naval Research and the CIA launched one of the most exotic spy missions of the Cold War: the...  Read More >>

Richard Johns' illustrious career gave him the privilege of a rare, if not singular, perspective of the RAF, our...  Read More >>

Examines crucial moments in the rhetoric of the Cold War, beginning with an exploration of American neutrality and...  Read More >>

Dagmar Herzog uncovers the astonishing array of concepts of human selfhood which circulated across the globe in...  Read More >>

Tells the terrible story of Stalin, whose monstrous rule was directly responsible for millions of deaths, with 1,500...  Read More >>

This volume discusses the presidential foreign policies of the post–Cold War era, beginning with George H. Bush...  Read More >>

Established in 1955, the Leipzig Film Festival's location in the GDR deeply implicated it in the cultural and political...  Read More >>

Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germany’s former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom...  Read More >>

The book traces the history of communist Bulgaria from 1944 to 1989. A chronological overview of the building of...  Read More >>

The true life story of Dudley Buck, an American Cold War hero whose pioneering work with computer chips placed him...  Read More >>