The Cold War

Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsk...

David Herriot served almost 40 years in the Royal Air Force as a navigator, first on the Buccaneer S2 and subsequently on the Tornado GR1. This vol...

'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief'Richard Davenport-Hines, The SpectatorSir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important Briti...

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...