The Cold War

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings the heart-stopping story of the missile c...

THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH CHOICE MAGAZINE HARDBACK OF THE MONTH A thoroughly gripping spy thriller... Captures the high stakes paranoia of ...

In late February, 1968, a Russian submarine, holding a battery of three ballistic missiles with enough nuclear material to create an explosion 50 t...

THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH CHOICE MAGAZINE HARDBACK OF THE MONTH A thoroughly gripping spy thriller... Captures the high stakes paranoia of ...

From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the aerial fighting in the flashpoints of the Cold War. T...

'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN'Totally riveting. I coul...

Matthew K. Shannon provides readers with a reminder of a brief and congenial phase of the relationship between the United States and Iran. In Losin...

In 1953 Dag Hammarskjöld became the second Secretary-General of the United Nations--the highest international civil servant. Before his mission was...

Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focus...

Twenty years in the making, this collection presents 122 top-level Soviet, European and American records on the superpowers' role in the annus mira...

A Foreign Affairs Best Books of 2020 Honorable mention for the Harry J. Benda Prize (Southeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies) The boo...

Lindsey A. ORourke is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Her research focuses on regime change, international security, an...

Artemy Kalinovsky's Laboratory of Socialist Development investigates the Soviet effort to make promises of decolonization a reality by looking at t...

Arc of Containment recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from World War II through the end of American intervention in ...

Artemy Kalinovsky's Laboratory of Socialist Development investigates the Soviet effort to make promises of decolonization a reality by looking at t...

The post-World War II boom in America brought about massive changes in society and culture, not just in the U.S. but around the world. The U.S. had...

Set in the north Norfolk countryside, Sculthorpe was the hub of offensive operations until its closure in 1944 for upgrading as a base for heavy bo...

The new East-West conflict, which broke out over the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, but which long predated it and soon spread through Europe and to the...

Beginning in 1943, US Army leaders such as John M. Palmer, Walter L. Weible, George C. Marshall, and John J. McCloy mounted a sustained and vigorou...

In Silent and Unseen, veteran submarine commander Captain Alfred S. McLaren describes in riveting detail the more significant events that occurred ...

From the early 1950s until 1992, the U.S. Army deployed thousands of nuclear warheads throughout Europe as a deterrent to Soviet ambitions. The ...

Detective McNulty applies bite marks to a deceased man's body with a set of dentures in The Wire, illustrating how officialdom deals in falseho...

During the Cold War, the West--especially in the popular media--tended to view communism as a monolithic phenomenon, with little variation throu...

Official US government advice on how to survive an atomic attack including full instructions on building your own nuclear shelter. In 1949 the So...

Although often framed as an economic, military, and diplomatic confrontation, the Cold War was above all a conflict of ideas. In official pronounce...

Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and sho...

With nearly 200 unique images photographed on the streets of Berlin by the author between 1959 and 1966, Berlin in the Cold War depicts a city whic...

In 1948, just as the Cold War was settling into the form it would maintain for nearly half a century, major antagonists the United States and Russi...

The astonishing true story of how the CIA, MI6 and a Soviet defector saved the world in 1962, as told in the new film, The Courier, starring Benedi...

Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrog...

This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. Ther...

A Bucket of Sunshine a term coined by RAF aircrew for the nuclear bomb that their aircraft would be armed with - is a first-hand insight into life...

Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with ...

John Cairncross was among the most damaging spies of the twentieth century. A member of the infamous Cambridge Ring of Five, he leaked highly sensi...

The last British Governor of Spandau Allied Prison puts the record straight about the final years of Rudolf Hess' life, and his ultimate suicide wh...

A revealing and authoritative history that shows how Soviet whalers secretly helped nearly destroy endangered whale populations, while also contrib...

Reveals the true nature of relations between the US and the UK during the Carter presidencyRobb Thomas draws upon a wealth of previously classified...

A groundbreaking examination of post-war photography in East and West GermanyThis ambitious publication is the first book to thoroughly evaluate th...

Michael Hopkins is an expert guide to the origins, development, eventual ending and ongoing legacies of the Cold War, focusing on the decisions of ...

Following the end of World War II, Berlin became a bone of contention between the former allies of USA, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union....

The centenary of the start of World War One in 1914 provides an opportunity to assess the role and impact of conflict in the history of the last ce...

The Forgotten is an utterly absorbing novel... The devastation of Berlin in 1945 is powerfully portrayed through the eyes of the women who are caug...