The Cold War

  • The Cold War
    The Cold War
    By Michael F. Hopkins

    Charting the rise and fall of almost fifty years of global confrontation, this highly visual book highlights the impact of the conflict on the culture of the times, bringing home the reality of life in the shadow of the Bomb.

  • The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
    The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
    By Robert J. McMahon

    This title provides a clear interpretive overview of the Cold War, one that should both invite debate and encourage deeper investigation.

  • The Cold War: A Military History
    The Cold War: A Military History
    By Thomas Fleming, Stephen E. Ambrose, Caleb Carr

    Another key player in 1964 was Robert McNamara. What did you think of the secretary of defense? I don't dislike Bob McNamara. He was fair to me. He came over in March or April of 1964. I remember Italked to him in 1964, one-on-one, ...

  • The Cold War: A Beginner's Guide
    The Cold War: A Beginner's Guide
    By Merrilyn Thomas

    At the start of the twentieth century, the German political economist, Max Weber, attempted to capture the essence of capitalism in his book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Weber argued that the desire to accumulate ...

  • The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [5 volumes]
    The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [5 volumes]
    By Spencer C. Tucker

    Ostpolitik greatly reduced Cold War tensions in Central Europe and thereby contributed to the success of détente in the ... Stent, Angela E. From Embargo to Ostpolitik: The Political Economy of West German- Soviet Relations, 1955–1980.

  • The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
    The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
    By Robert J. McMahon

    ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly.

  • The Cold War: The Great Powers and Their Allies
    The Cold War: The Great Powers and Their Allies
    By J. P. D. Dunbabin

    In this book Dunabin delivers a balanced perspective on the key events and helps the reader to gain a deeper understanding of why they happened as they did.

  • The Cold War
    The Cold War
    By Bradley Lightbody

    Bradley Lightbody here examines the complex arguments which divided East and West following the Second World war, and analyzes its eight major phases from the emergence of the Cold War through the late 1980s.

  • The Cold War: A World History
    The Cold War: A World History
    By Odd Arne Westad

    This is a book of extraordinary scope and daring. It is conventional to see the first half of the 20th century as a nightmare and the second half as a reprieve.

  • The Cold War: A Military History
    The Cold War: A Military History
    By Jeremy Black

    Surveys the military and diplomatic history of the long Cold War, from 1917 to the present.

  • The Cold War
    The Cold War
    By Priscilla Mary Roberts, Priscilla Roberts

    The Cold War dominated international relations in the second half of the twentieth century. No country in the world was unaffected by what was perceived as an all-embracing ideological and military conflict between communism and democracy.

  • The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
    The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
    By Ronald E. Powaski

    Ideal for courses in world history and U.S. and Soviet foreign policy, this text is the definitive account of our century's longest international struggle.

  • The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History
    The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History
    By Ralph B. Levering

    With extended coverage of the Korean and Vietnam Wars as well as a thorough examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the new edition of The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History will continue to serve as an essential guide to this pivotal ...

  • The Cold War: The Great Powers and Their Allies
    The Cold War: The Great Powers and Their Allies
    By J.P.D. Dunbabin

    In this book Dunabin delivers a balanced perspective on the key events and helps the reader to gain a deeper understanding of why they happened as they did.

  • The Cold War
    The Cold War
    By Wendy Conklin

    The Cold War was a different kind of war that lasted for more than 40 years.

  • The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts
    The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts
    By Odd Arne Westad, Jussi M. Hanhimäki

    Not only does this book put a human face on the conflict, but it draws emphasis to the variety of ways in which this conflict was experienced.

  • The Cold War: The 45-Year Struggle Against Communism
    The Cold War: The 45-Year Struggle Against Communism
    By 50 minutes

    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Cold War in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Cold War.

  • The Cold War: Historiography, Memory, Representation
    The Cold War: Historiography, Memory, Representation
    By Konrad H. Jarausch, Andreas Etges, Christian Ostermann

    Thomas Patrick Doherty, Cold War, cool medium: television, McCarthyism, and American culture, Film and culture (New ... on American Cold War Culture,” (2015); Benjamin Phillips, “College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era ...

  • The Cold War
    The Cold War
    By John Lamberton Harper

    A concise, briskly-written account of the Cold War, drawing on the latest archival evidence and scholarly research.

  • The Cold War: Interpreting Conflict through Primary Documents [2 volumes]
    The Cold War: Interpreting Conflict through Primary Documents [2 volumes]
    By Priscilla Roberts

    Aldrich, Richard J. The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002. Ali, S. Mahmud. Cold War in the High Himalayas: The USA, China, and South Asia in the 1950s.