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The Cold War
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The Cold War was famously never a declared “war” but an ideological struggle that unfolded in a decades-long series of proxy conflicts. Researchers are still uncovering new information from archives and other sources to better explain this strange period, which one historian has referred to as the “Fifty-Year Wound.” Check out these recent titles from our collection if you’re curious to learn more.
The Brink
President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983
Published in 2018
xx, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The Quiet Americans
Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts
Published in 2020
x, 562 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Undersea Warriors
The Untold History of the Royal Navy's Secret Service
Published in 2019
ix, 482 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
In the Enemy's House
The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies
Published in 2018
317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Someone is out to Get Us
A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness
Published in 2019
xxiii, 486 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Cold War Dixie
Militarization and Modernization in the American South
Published in 2013
xii, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
The Spy in Moscow Station
A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat
Published in 2019
xix, 264 pages ; 25 cm
The Billion Dollar Spy
A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
Published in 2015
312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Who Can Hold the Sea
The U.S. Navy in the Cold War, 1945-1960
Published in 2022
xviii, 459 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Assignment Russia
Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War
Published in 2021
xii, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Oceans Ventured
Winning the Cold War at Sea
Published in 2018
xxix, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Checkpoint Charlie
The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
Published in 2019
viii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
The Spy and the Traitor
The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Published in 2018
viii, 358 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
The Free World
Art and Thought in the Cold War
Published in 2021
xiv, 857 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The Moscow Rules
The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
Published in 2019
xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Checkmate in Berlin
The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
Published in 2021
xvi, 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
The Zookeepers' War
An Incredible True Story from the Cold War
Published in 2019
261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Nuclear Folly
A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Published in 2021
xviii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Saving Freedom
Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization
Published in 2020
xxii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
The End of the Cold War 1985-1991
Published in 2015
xxii, 643 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Above & Beyond
John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
Published in 2018
viii, 329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
The Golden Thread
The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
Published in 2020
x, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Betrayal in Berlin
The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation
Published in 2019
x, 530 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Blood and Sand
Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace
Published in 2016
xvi, 534 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
The Folly and the Glory
America, Russia, and Political Warfare, 1945-2020
Published in 2020
325 pages ; 25 cm
Cold Warriors
Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
Published in 2019
xi, 782 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm