Searching for Memory Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil
Jacob Blanc
Published 2025
296 pages
The most popular cold War books of 2025
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 2025.
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We Have Ceased to See the Purpose Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Published 2025
228 pages
The Breach Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy
Alan McPherson
Published 2025
384 pages
Over Cold War Seas NATO and Soviet Naval Aviation, 1949–89
Michael Napier
Published 2025
320 pages
Strange Stability How Cold War Scientists Set Out to Control the Arms Race and Ended Up Serving the Military-Industrial Complex
Benjamin Wilson
Published 2025
464 pages
Intelligent Warfare The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE KCB MC and Bar DL
Frank Kitson, General Frank Kitson GBE KCB MC and Bar DL
Published 2025
272 pages
The JFK Conspiracy The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy—and Why It Failed
Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
2025 · 2026 edition
304 pages
Cold War Refugees Connected Histories of Displacement and Migration Across Postcolonial Asia
Yumi Moon
Published 2025
266 pages
Eric Warburg A Transatlantic Life
Jeanette Erazo Heufelder
Published 2025
220 pages
Knowledge Production in Cold War Asia
Yuka Moriguchi Tsuchiya
Published 2025
348 pages
The U-2 Over the Soviet Union America's Famous Cold War Spy Plane from a Soviet Perspective
Dmitry Degtev
Published 2025
256 pages
Korea War Without End
Robert Lyman, Richard Dannatt
Published 2025
352 pages
Parallel Lives A Love Story from a Lost Continent
Iain Pears
Published 2025
288 pages
The Airborne Mafia The Paratroopers Who Shaped America's Cold War Army
Robert F. Williams
Published 2025
288 pages
Women and the Jet Age A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants
Phil Tiemeyer
Published 2025
324 pages
Watching the Jackals Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries
Daniela Richterova
Published 2025
376 pages
Empire of Illusions The Unipolar Fantasy and the Collapse of Global Trust
HASE Fiero
Published 2025
67 pages
The Fate of the Americas The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War
Renata Keller
Published 2025
332 pages
America’s Multi-Front Information War An All Out Information War on American Democracy & Threats to America’s Democratic and Global Leadership
HASE Fiero
Published 2025
68 pages
Total Defense The New Deal and the Invention of National Security
Andrew Preston
Published 2025
320 pages
Saint Petersburg Sacrifice and Redemption in the City that Defied Hitler
Sinclair McKay
2025 · 2026 edition
432 pages
A Fractured Liberation Korea Under US Occupation
Kornel Chang
Published 2025
304 pages
Dictatorship Across Borders Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War
Mila Burns
Published 2025
258 pages
No Race, No Country The Politics and Poetics of Richard Wright
Deborah Mutnick
Published 2025
312 pages