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The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America

By Rabe, Stephen G.

The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake

By Roger Hermiston

In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre

By Lara Pawson

The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War

By Benn Steil (Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations)

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

By Hoffman, David E.

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

By Peter Finn, Petra Couvee

The Cold War

By John Lewis Gaddis

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

By Max Hastings

Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents

By Corera, Gordon

From Cold War to Hot Peace: The Inside Story of Russia and America

By Michael McFaul

The Cold War: The Great Powers and their Allies

By J.P.D. Dunbabin

The Wall: The People's Story

By Christopher Hilton

The Cold War through Documents: A Global History

By Edward H. Judge, John W. Langdon

Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953

By Simon Ings

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Volkogonov, Dmitri, Dmitri Volkogonov

The House by the Lake

By Thomas Harding

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

By J.W. Mohnhaupt, Shelley Frisch

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Wheen, Francis

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

By Fred Burton, John Bruning

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By Katja Hoyer

Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Serhii Plokhy

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

By Max Hastings

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

By Susan S. Williams

First World War: Still No End in Sight

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

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

By David Caute

Global Art and the Cold War

By John J. Curley

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By Ben Macintyre

The Skripal Files: The full story behind the Salisbury Poisonings

By Mark Urban

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

By Anne Sebba

The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West

By Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin