Funeral in Berlin
Len Deighton
1973 · 2023 edition
288 pages
The most popular cold War books
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.
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Escape from Memory
Margaret Peterson Haddix, Copyright Paperback Collection (library Of Congress)
2001 · 2004 edition
220 pages
Fallout
Todd Strasser
Published 2013
272 pages
Ike's Bluff
Evan Thomas
Published 2012
496 pages
Bridge of Spies A True Story of the Cold War
Giles Whittell
Published 2010
304 pages
George F. Kennan An American Life
John Lewis Gaddis
Published 2011
784 pages
Tripped
Norman Ohler
2024 · 2026 edition
240 pages
The Moscow Rules The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
Antonio J. Mendez, Jonna Mendez
2018 · 2019 edition
272 pages
The General Vs. the President MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H. W. Brands
Published 2016
437 pages
Nuclear Folly A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Serhii Plokhy
Published 2021
464 pages
Witness
Whittaker Chambers
Published 1983
816 pages
Checkmate in Berlin The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
Giles Milton
Published 2021
416 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
Raven Rock The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die
Garrett M. Graff
Published 2017
529 pages
The Enemy of My Enemy
William E. Butterworth III, William E. Butterworth IV
2018 · 2019 edition
400 pages
Rome 1960 The Olympics That Changed the World
David Maraniss
Published 2008
478 pages
Berlin 1961
Frederick Kempe
Published 2011
608 pages
Life An Exploded Diagram
Mal Peet
Published 2011
412 pages
The Cold War A World History
Odd Arne Westad
Published 2017
720 pages
Red Moon Rising
Matthew Brzezinski
Published 2007
336 pages
The Berlin Wall
Frederick Taylor
2006 · 2019 edition
528 pages
The Taking of K-129 How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
Josh Dean
Published 2017
431 pages
Essence of Decision
Philip Zelikow, Graham Allison
Published 1999
416 pages
The Nazis Next Door How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
Eric Lichtblau
Published 2014
266 pages