The Jakarta Method Washington's Anti-Communist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Vincent Bevins
Published 2020
320 pages
The most popular cold War books of 2020
Books about the Cold War cover the decades when the West and the Soviet bloc faced each other across a divided world. Spies, nuclear fear, walls and proxy wars fill histories and novels alike. The era produced some of the best thrillers ever written. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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Agent Sonya Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
Ben Macintyre
Published 2020
377 pages
The Quiet Americans Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts
Scott Anderson
Published 2020
562 pages
The Age of Illusions How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
Andrew Bacevich
Published 2020
256 pages
Gambling with Armageddon Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Martin J. Sherwin
2020 · 2022 edition
640 pages
Ten Days in Harlem
Simon Hall
2020 · 2022 edition
288 pages
Berlin The Story of a City
Barney White-Spunner
Published 2020
505 pages
Human Factor
Archie Brown
Published 2020
496 pages
Fateful Triangle How China Shaped U.S.-India Relations During the Cold War
Tanvi Madan
Published 2020
398 pages
After the Korean War An Intimate History
Heonik Kwon
Published 2020
231 pages
Latin America and the Global Cold War (New Cold War History)
Thomas C. Field, Stella Krepp, Vanni Pettin�
Published 2020
440 pages
Cold Wars
Lorenz M. Lüthi
Published 2020
784 pages
Ballet in the Cold War A Soviet-American Exchange
Anne Searcy
Published 2020
183 pages
The Hijacked War
David Cheng Chang
Published 2020
496 pages
The Revolution that Failed Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War
Brendan Green
Published 2020
290 pages
Assignment Potsdam
Charlie FitzGerald
Published 2020
A Wall of Our Own An American History of the Berlin Wall
Paul M. Farber
Published 2020
246 pages
While the Fantail Lives
Alan Titchall
Published 2020
243 pages
British Submarines in the Cold War Era
Norman Friedman
2020 · 2021 edition
384 pages
Fearing the Worst How Korea Transformed the Cold War
Samuel Wells Jr.
Published 2020
586 pages
"Never I Shall Forget These Human People"
Roger G. Rank
Published 2020
340 pages
Rate of Climb Thrilling Personal Reminiscences from a Fighter Pilot and Leader
Rick Peacock-Edwards
Published 2020
192 pages
MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law
Keith D. Ewing, Joan Mahoney, Andrew Moretta
Published 2020
511 pages
The Gunner and the Grunt
Michael Kelley, Peter Burbank
2020 · 2023 edition
256 pages