(Paperback)
By: Hugh Wilford
ISBN: 9781399816861
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2025
Publisher: John Murray Press
See more...
How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.
(Hardback)
By: Vladislav Zubok
ISBN: 9780241696149
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Hardback, Main)
By: Shaun Walker
ISBN: 9781788167772
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 17th April 2025
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
See more...
A pacy, character-driven history of the KGB's deepest cover spies in the West, a system that took decades to unravel
(Paperback)
By: Roger Hermiston
ISBN: 9781785907371
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2022
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
See more...
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR - 'a dark remembrance of 1953, when nuclear annihilation was only the press of a button away'.
(Paperback)
By: Ann Curthoys
ISBN: 9781742233918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
See more...
The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in. Family ties were tested, friendships torn apart and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through 12 stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family and friendship.
(Paperback)
By: Jeff Schuhrke
ISBN: 9781839769054
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Verso Books
See more...
The secret history of how the CIA used American unions to undermine working class militancy at home and abroad during the Cold War.
(Paperback)
By: Eva Dillon
ISBN: 9780062748195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Hugh Wilford
ISBN: 9781399816854
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: John Murray Press
See more...
A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.
(Paperback)
By: Timothy Phillips
ISBN: 9781783785780
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2023
Publisher: Granta Books
See more...
From the Arctic Circle to the Turkish border, a landmark journey along the old Iron Curtain, tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy.
(Hardback)
By: Louis Menand
ISBN: 9780007126873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
See more...
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense economic and political, artistic and personal.
(Paperback)
By: Matthew Longo
ISBN: 9781529920987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
See more...
(Paperback)
By: David C. Martin
ISBN: 9781510722187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Phil Carradice
ISBN: 9781526728296
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2018
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
See more...
A detailed explanation of the landings, relying heavily on first-hand accounts from the men who were there, on the invasion beaches.
(Paperback)
By: Al J. Venter
ISBN: 9781526707826
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
See more...
Al Venter was rarely conventional in his approach to problems encountered in the Middle East.
(Paperback)
By: Gerry Van Tonder
ISBN: 9781526707864
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2017
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
See more...
Exclusive first-hand accounts, views and analyses from personal author interviews with individuals who either served or lived in Malaya during the troubles
(Hardback)
By: Timothy Phillips
ISBN: 9781783785766
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th October 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
See more...
A landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain - from the Arctic Circle to Turkey's eastern border - tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy.
(Paperback)
By: Peter Baxter
ISBN: 9781526707901
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
See more...
Covers the wider dynamic of Cold War engagements over the emerging Middle East crisis
(Paperback)
By: Taylor Downing
ISBN: 9781408710531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
See more...
A tense, thrilling account of how, in 1983, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly caused global Armageddon.
(Hardback)
By: James C. Goodall
ISBN: 9781472846471
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 13th May 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
This pictorial journey will take the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follow the program through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service.
(Paperback)
By: Steve Vogel
ISBN: 9781473647510
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: John Murray Press
See more...
A true Cold War espionage thriller set in the ultra-secret Berlin Tunnel - where British officer George Blake must run a high-stakes double cross to maintain his cover.
(Hardback)
By: Giles Milton
ISBN: 9781529393156
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
See more...
A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of narrative history'.
(Paperback)
By: Giles Milton
ISBN: 9781529393163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
See more...
A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of narrative history'.
(Paperback)
By: Jeremy Duns
ISBN: 9781849839297
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
See more...
Synopsis coming soon.......
(Hardback)
By: Michael Napier
ISBN: 9781472853578
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the aerial fighting in the flashpoints of the Cold War.
