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The Cold War: A New Oral History

By Bridget Kendall

Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

By Jim Downs (Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Connecticut College, New York, NY)

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

By Max Hastings

The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West

By Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

By Anne Sebba

The Skripal Files: The full story behind the Salisbury Poisonings

By Mark Urban

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By MacIntyre, Ben

Global Art and the Cold War

By John J. Curley

Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic

By David Caute

First World War: Still No End in Sight

By Professor Frank Furedi (Professor of Sociology, university of kent, UK)

Who Killed Hammarskjold?: The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa

By Susan S. Williams

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

By Max Hastings

Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Serhii Plokhy

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By Katja Hoyer

Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice

By Fred Burton, John Bruning

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Wheen, Francis

The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War

By J.W. Mohnhaupt, Shelley Frisch

The House by the Lake

By Thomas Harding

A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal

By MacIntyre, Ben

Bridge of Spies

By Whittell, Giles

V Force Boys: All New Reminiscences by Air and Ground Crews operating the Vulcan, Victor and Valiant in the Cold War

By Tony Blackman, Anthony Wright

Nuclear War in the UK

By Young, Taras

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

By Philipps, Roland

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

By Finn, Peter, Couvee, Petra

Command and Control

By Schlosser, Eric

The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage (History of British Intelligence)

By David Burke

The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War

By McKay, Sinclair

Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism

By Sheehan, Helena

OCR A Level History: The Cold War in Asia 1945–1993 and the Cold War in Europe 1941–95

By Fellows, Nicholas, Macfarlane, Richard, Holland, Andrew, Wells, Mike