The Cold War

The Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations,...

In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giov...

The monograph is the result of research conducted between 2014 and 2018 in historical museums in Central and Eastern Europe. The main goal of the ...

A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR - 'a dark remembrance of 1953, when nuclear annihilation was only the press of a button away'. January 1953. Eight ye...

Established in the 1940s, the Five Eyes intelligence network consists of Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The allian...

January, 1953. It is eight years on from the most destructive conflict in human history and the Cold War has entered its most deadly phase. An Iron...

This is an open access book available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfor...

'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES 'A stunning debut thriller . . . utterly terrifying . . . absolutely riveting' DAILY MAIL 'Fascinating . . . fearsome' F...

Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, the borders hitherto separating Greek culture and society from its contiguous Balkan polities came ...

Scotlands unique geography and topography provided a useful base for Allied military preparations during the Cold War, a 40-year nuclear stand-off ...

A comprehensive overview of the work of the Military Vehicles Research and Development Establishment on Chobham Common, which provided armoured veh...

This book sheds light on a neglected aspect of Indias Cold War diplomacy, starting with the role of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his ...

In March 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence. Within weeks, the two other Baltic states, Estonia and Latvi...

A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer-the astonishing true story of two spies an...

This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages ...

'Merriman excels at recreating the physicality of their experiences: the smell of dense clay, the click-clack of a woman walking down the street ab...

'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times'A spectacular achievement' Dominic Sandbrook'Fast-paced, absorbing, insightful' Simon...

'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times'Lively and original' The Spectator'A spectacular achievement' Dominic Sandbrook'Fast-...

October 1962, The Cuban Missile Crisis: the confrontation that brought the world closer to nuclear catastrophe than ever before or since. Drawing ...

Panama is a country whose geopolitical importance outweighs its size because of the volume of trade that passes the Central American isthmus throug...

What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the...

Martin Packard is an extraordinary man who has led an extraordinary life. An idealist and a man of liberal instincts, his enthusiasms resulted in h...

The Z handgun models 50 and 70 are available to Western collectors today but were both developed and produced behind the Iron Curtain. In the years...

The Red Army in Romania is the first comprehensive study of the Soviet occupation of Romanian territory in 1940-1941, and its occupation of the cou...

Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleons defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into...

This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the professional development of two notable and highly accomplished naval officers and...

In 1972, the US Navy installed a base for nuclear submarines in the Archipelago of La Maddalena off the northeastern shore of Sardinia, Italy. In r...

The war on the Eastern Front during 1941-45 was an immense struggle, running from the Barents Sea to the Caucasus Mountains. The vast distances inv...

Black Tulip is the dramatic story of history's top fighter ace, Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. It's also the story of how his service under Hitler...

During the Cold War, the political leadership of the Soviet Union avidly sought intelligence about its main adversary, the United States. Although ...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER, Daily Telegraph 5* review'Page-tu...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER, Daily Telegraph 5* review'Page-tu...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A fast-paced account of Americas plunge into simultaneous cold wars against two very different adversaries X...

Informers are generally reviled. After all, 'snitches get stitches.' Informers who report to repressive regimes are particularly disdained. While i...

In The Power of Systems, Egl Rindzeviit introduces readers to one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War: the International Institute of Applied ...

This book examines the careers of 53 area experts in the US State Departments Middle East bureau during the Cold War. Known as Arabists or Middle E...

The Netherlands Carillon stands out in the American memorial landscape. Situated between Arlington National Cemetery and the Marine Corps War Memor...

This volume is the first publication to examine in detail the phenomenon of collective art practice in the continental Western Europe of the late 1...