The Cold War

Orford Ness was, for most of the twentieth century, a military research station so secret that nobody knew what went on there, and so remote that e...

An exhilarating real-life Cold War thriller about the Americans who fought for Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution - then switched sides to try to...

Divided Together studies US and Soviet policy toward the United Nations during the first two decades of the Cold War. It sheds new light on a serie...

Thor: Anatomy of a Weapon System examines the technical aspects of the Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile system as based in the UK during t...

Reveals the true nature of relations between the US and the UK during the Carter presidency Robb Thomas draws upon a wealth of previously classifie...

Trust, but Verify uses trustwith its emotional and predictive aspectsto explore international relations in the second half of the Cold War, beginni...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe Dead Hand is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative history of Reagan, Gorbachev and the final decade of the Cold W...

When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and m...

A gripping history of one of the United States' most controversial Cold War intelligence operations.Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German sc...

Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet ...

Understand the Cold War provides a fascinating insight into this complicated and hidden conflict, from how it began to the main characters involved...

Highly accessible and sprightly written. -Library JournalWinner of the Kansas State Library''s Kansas Notable Book AwardIn this engaging, fast-pac...

The stunning novel about our fiercest loyalties, deepest desires and the power of forgiveness''A highly-charged love story'' DELIA OWENS, bestselli...

Ronald Reagan's Cold War strategy, well established in his first year in office, did not change:  to make absolutely sure in the minds of the Sovie...

Diplomatic relations between Cambodia and Britain at the height of the Cold War provide unique insights into the overall foreign policies of both n...

From its inception in 1932, overseas broadcasting by the BBC quickly became an essential adjunct to British diplomatic and foreign policy objective...

The greatest threat to the Western alliance in the 1960s did not come from an enemy, but from an ally. France, led by its mercurial leader Gener...

One of the outstanding mysteries of the twentieth century, and one with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjold and his UN team ...

Ronald Reagan's Cold War strategy was well established in his first year in office and did not change throughout his presidency. It was to make abs...

Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the...

For much of the Cold War, the British Armys main battle tanks (MBT) were first the Centurion and then the Chieftain. The question of the latters re...

Now in paperback, a riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officerthe astonishing true stor...

1983 was a supremely dangerous year - even more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the US, President Reagan massively in...

1983 was a supremely dangerous year - even more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the US, President Reagan massively in...

After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and ...

Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, ...

Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, ...

A darkly entertaining tale about American espionage, set in an era when Washingtons fear and skepticism about the agency resembles our climate toda...

During the Cold War, the T-54/55 series of tanks represented the most serious threat to Nato land forces in Europe. Available in huge quantities, i...

One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people-mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children-died in on...

The field of Cold War studies has recently undergone a cultural turn. Scholars from many disciplines outside - but increasingly also from within - ...

This book follows the author's experiences in the United States Navy from 1966 through 1972. They include a personal background, boot camp, elec...