The Cold War books

The hugely revered, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative history of Reagan, Gorbachev and the dying days of the...  Read More >>

"The three volumes in The Cold War offer a unique event-by-event history of the full sweep of the Cold War, with...  Read More >>

On 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become...  Read More >>

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Drawing on a vast range of recently released archives in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany,...  Read More >>

For the first time in modern history, a regime had to wall itself in to keep from bleeding to death. The masses...  Read More >>

For the first time in modern history, a regime had to wall itself in to keep from bleeding to death. The masses...  Read More >>

Death at the Berlin Wall tells the stories of twelve individuals who lost their lives at the Wall between 1961 and...  Read More >>

An examination of the workings of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty during the period in which the two broadcast...  Read More >>

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The Allied agreement after the Second World War did not only partition Germany, it divided the nation along the...  Read More >>

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In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical...  Read More >>

This book explores questions raised during a seminar discussion amongst a group of outstanding scholars. The result...  Read More >>

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Drawing on analyses of the socio-cultural context of East and Central Europe, focusing on the Czech cultural dynamics...  Read More >>

"The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to...  Read More >>

How new ideas of space contributed to a broad mobilization of American power.  Read More >>

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On July 21, 1974, despite incredible risks and after years of secret preparations, the CIA attempted to salvage...  Read More >>

""Portions of this book were originally published as Politika SSSR v Zapadnoi Afrike, 1956-1964: neizvestnye stranitsy...  Read More >>

Der Geschichtswissenschaft, und nicht nur ihr, ist unmerklich der Begriff der Wahrheit abhanden gekommen, und mit...  Read More >>

'From Moscow to Cuba and Beyond' vividly evokes the joys as well as the difficulties of life as an expatriate and...  Read More >>

An analysis of the German Question's influence on the origins of the Cold War, arguing that the legal and diplomatic...  Read More >>

A history of private life in the German Democratic Republic, showing how the private sphere assumed central importance...  Read More >>