The Cold War books

From the early 1950s until 1992, the US Army deployed thousands of nuclear warheads throughout Europe as a deterrent...  Read More >>

"""Comprising 70 percent or more of civil defense workers at the height of the Cold War, American women served as...  Read More >>

With films ranging from High Noon to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer (1913-2001) was one of the most...  Read More >>

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America Enters the Cold War provides a succinct and insightful analysis of the foreign policy decisions which shaped...  Read More >>

"This study examines the CIA's ""third force"" strategy—providing support for a third-party alternative over two...  Read More >>

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This volume brings together contributions in honour of esteemed historian Geoffrey Swain, who has written extensively...  Read More >>

This collection examines the role of the Fulda Gap—located at the border between East and West Germany—in Cold War...  Read More >>

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A revised edition of the classic, myth-shattering exploration of American family life during the Cold War. When...  Read More >>

This deeply informed book provides a rare inside look at the previously hidden history of the formative years of...  Read More >>

Covers the background, development and career of Challenger 2.  Read More >>

Riveting first-hand memoirs of a Buccaneer pilot during the Cold War.  Read More >>

Deals with the work on the history of the European Union: Initiatives, disputes, and successes, from Winston Churchill...  Read More >>

Upon its adoption in December 1936, Soviet leaders hailed the new so-called Stalin Constitution as the most democratic...  Read More >>

A study of William Remington (1917-1954), an intriguing figure in the Truman administration caught up in the 1950s...  Read More >>

A revelatory new biography of the sinister, powerful, and paranoid man at the heart of the CIA for more than three...  Read More >>

This book is about the Americanization of Yugoslav culture and everyday life during the nineteen-sixties.  Read More >>

In The Origins of International Counterterrorism, Aviva Guttmann analyses how Switzerland and other governments...  Read More >>

American involvement in the Vietnam War not only held back the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, but also catalysed...  Read More >>

The El Salvador conflict remains a classic example of how a communist insurgency or any other popular large-scale...  Read More >>

How the world came to a within a hairbreadth of a nuclear conflagration.  Read More >>

Provides new material and a fresh perspective on American National Intelligence practice, focusing on the first...  Read More >>

This comprehensive collection of carefully edited documents traces the rise and fall of the Cold War. Set in historical...  Read More >>