Modern - 20th Century - Cold War
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Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
$35.00 Add to cartThe riveting story of the ring of spies known as the Cambridge Five, who infiltrated the highest levels of the British establishment and helped Stalin cement a half century of Soviet domination over E… [more below]
- Author: Senior, Antonia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 154170438X
- Language: English
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The Defector: The Untold Story of the KGB Agent Who Saved Mi5 and Changed the Cold War
$29.95 Read moreThe riveting untold story of how the defection of a KGB saboteur in London led to the rescue of MI5 after a series of disastrous intelligence failures.
Drawing on newly declassified intelligence docum- Author: Kerbaj, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897101719
- Language: English
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Globemaster Down: Soviet Espionage and the Doomed American Attempt to Sneak Nukes Into Europe
$29.00 Add to cartJust in time for the 75th anniversary comes the first book-length investigation into one of the great unsolved mysteries from the early days of the Cold War, when an American cargo plane allegedly car… [more below]
- Author: Robberson, Tod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544600
- Language: English
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Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin’s Bomb
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Valentine, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 006330547X
- Language: English
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Sweet Victory: How the Berlin Airlift Divided East and West
$29.95 Add to cartThe fascinating story of how a forgotten group of airmen–who had spent World War II dropping Allied bombs on Berlin–risked their lives in 1948-49 dropping chocolate bars from the sky.
After Hitler’s- Author: Pearson, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368582
- Language: English
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Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder
$35.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul comes a bold, clear-eyed look at how the autocracies of China and Russia are challenging the current global o
- Author: McFaul, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0358677874
- Language: English
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The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
$30.00 Add to cartA witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science.
In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Sov- Author: Strausbaugh, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703340
- Language: English
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The CIA: An Imperial History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this “superb” (Kathryn Olmsted) new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire
As World War II end- Author: Wilford, Hugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 154164591X
- Language: English
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Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
$29.99 Add to cartBest-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulou
- Author: Pears, Iain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324073772
- Language: English
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The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind
$35.00 Read moreA major new history of the Cold War that explores the conflict through the minds of the people who lived through it.
More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the hum- Author: Sixsmith, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361812
- Language: English
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The American Surveillance State: How the U.S. Spies on Dissent
$19.95 Read moreNew evidence has come to light proving how far the FBI monitored its citizens throughout the Cold War and beyond.
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged.
- Author: Price, David Hotchkiss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0745346014
- Language: English
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The End of the Cold War and its Aftermath
$16.95 Add to cartRoughly thirty years ago, the Cold War came to an end. This multi-generational struggle, which did not always remain “cold,” came to define the security environment and, arguably, the social milieu fo
- Author: Wilcox, Mark R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1977253180
- Language: English
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Containing History: How Cold War History Explains Us-Russia Relations
$34.95 Add to cartIn the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with U.S.-Russia relations approaching a breaking point, this book provides a key to understanding how we got here. Specifically, Stephen … [more below]
- Author: Friot, Stephen P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0806191902
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A World History
$26.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world
We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 154167409X
- Language: English
