I want to know names of books on the Cold War?

Answer 1

There are a zillion of them covering only a few years of the Cold War, to volumes that cover all of it, to memoirs of participants.

You should know that a lot of books on the Cold War focus on one aspect, such as the end (which seems to be the most common) to high priced intensive studies of a single topic (Africa in the Cold War). As a historian, I have included what I consider the three most accessible and inexpensive texts covering all of the Cold War. If you would like something more specialized, check your library, because a lot of Cold War books are increasingly published by university or smaller presses and therefore are either textbooks, coffee table books, or simply high priced (above $30)

The Cold War - A New History: John Lewis Gaddis
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Cold War - Robert Mann
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Tony Judt

I hope these help!

Answer 2

1.Fred Halliday, "Cold War" The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, 2e. Joel Krieger, ed. Oxford University Press Inc. 2001.
2. The term "Wisconsin school" refers to interpretations of the Cold War influenced by William Appleman Williams, a historian at the University of Wisconsin. The term is used because his research interests were continued by some of his students, particularly Walter La Feber.
3. LeFaber 2002, pp. 1-2
4. John Lewis Gaddis, Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States An Interpretive History. 1990, p. 57
5. Walter LaFeber, "Cold War." A Reader's Companion to American History, Eric Foner and John A. Garrraty, eds. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991.
6. David F. Schmitz, "Cold War (1945–91): Causes" The Oxford Companion to American Military History. John Whiteclay Chambers II, ed., Oxford University Press 1999.
7. Curtis F. Morgan, Southern Partnership: James F. Byrnes, Lucius D. Clay and Germany, 1945 1947
8.George F. Kennan, Memorirs: 1925-1950 An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1967. pp. 335-336.
9. Ray Salvatore Jennings "The Road Ahead: Lessons in Nation Building from Japan, Germany, and Afghanistan for Postwar Iraq May 2003, Peaceworks No. 49 pg.15
10.Ray Salvatore Jennings “The Road Ahead: Lessons in Nation Building from Japan, Germany, and Afghanistan for Postwar Iraq May 2003, Peaceworks No. 49 pg.15
11.Pas de Pagaille! Time Magazine July 28, 1947.
12. Jan Palmowski, "Cold War" A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. Oxford University Press, 2003.
13. Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991. Vintage Books, 1991. p. 226.
14. William A. Link and Arthur S. Link, American Epoch: A History of the United States since 1990 Volume II Affluence and Anxiety, 1940-1992. Seventh Edition. McGraw Hill, 1993.
15. Zachary Karabell, "Cold War (1945–91): External Course" The Oxford Companion to American Military History. John Whiteclay Chambers II, ed., Oxford University Press 1999.
16. "Cold War," Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Craig Calhoun, ed. Oxford University Press. 2002.
17. "Cold War." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
18. "Ronald Reagan," A Reader's Companion to American History Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991.
19. Anatoly Dobrynin, In Confidence, 1995, pp. 438-439; Charles W. Maynes, "The World in 1980," U.S. Department of State, Current Policy, April 1980, pp. 1-2. Quoted in LaFeber 2002, p. 314.
20. William E. Odom, The Collapse of the Soviet Military, Yale University Press, 1998, p. 1.
21. "Cold War," A Dictionary of World History. Oxford University Press, 2000. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.
22. Anders Åslund, "How small is the Soviet National Income?" in Henry S. Rowen and Charles Wolf, Jr., eds., The Impoverished Superpower: Perestroika and the Soviet Military Burden (San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1990), p. 49.
23. Peter Nolan, China's Rise, Russia's Fall. Macmillan Press, 1995. pp. 17–18.
24. Monty G. Marshall and Ted Gurr, Peace and Conflict 2005 (Center for Systemic Peace: 2006, online at [1]
25. Jonathan Nashel, "Cold War (1945–91): Changing Interpretations" The Oxford Companion to American Military History. John Whiteclay Chambers II, ed., Oxford University Press 1999.
26. Brinkley, Alan (1986). American History: A Survey. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 798-799.
27. Peter Byrd, "Cold War" The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics. Ed. Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Answer 3

I know a very good book from Henry Kissinger (the Secretary of State under Reagan administration, if I am not wrong) called The Diplomacy. However, it is not a light reading. But very good!

Answer 4

Books on Cold war :
>> Cold War, Hot Science: Applied Research in Britain's Defence Laboratories 1945-1990 By R. Budd.
Description : Cold War, Hot Science presents an authoritative history of post-war British defense research as related to the establishments that, at the time of writing and first publication, formed part of the Defense Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA). DERA included such well-known centers as the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Famborough, the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at Malvern, and the Chemical and Biological Defense Establishment at Porton Down. Collectively these have conducted a very high proportion of all scientific research in Britain since the WWII. Study of these vast, but traditionally secretive, institutions is vital to understanding science in post-war Britain. In addition to research on new weapons, the establishments have maintained high levels of policy-relevant expertise, providing advice to government and even carried out some manufacturing. Until now their contribution has been little understood. This is the first systematic treatment of their history, putting the applied science of the military sector in its technological, military and social context. This book offers a pioneering synthesis, studying science and conventional arms with a focus upon research rather than all aspects of military technology.

>> The Global Cold War: third world interventions and the making of our times By Odd Arne Westad.
Description : The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we live in today--especially international politics, economics, and military affairs. This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the 20th century created the foundations for most of today's key international conflicts, including the "war on terror." Odd Arne Westad examines the origins and course of Third World revolutions and the ideologies that drove the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. towards interventionism. He focuses on how these interventions gave rise to resentments and resistance that, in the end, helped to topple one and to seriously challenge the other superpower. In addition, he demonstrates how these worldwide interventions determined the international and domestic framework within which political, social and cultural changes took place in such countries as China, Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua. According to Westad, these changes, plus the ideologies, movements and states that interventionism stirred up, constitute the real legacy of the Cold War. Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2004 he was named head of department and co-director of the new LSE Cold War Studies Centre. Professor Westad is the author, or editor, of ten books on contemporary international history including Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950 (2003) and, with Jussi Hanhimaki, The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts (2003). In addition, he is a founding editor of the journal Cold War History.

>> John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War By Richard H. Immerman.
Description : "Contains revised papers initially presented to the "John Foster Dulles Centennial Conference: The Challenge of Leadership in International Affairs," held at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs February 25-27, 1988"--Acknowledgments.

>> Reconstruction and Cold War in Germany: The Kreditanstalt Für Wiederaufbau By Armin Grünbacher.
Description : 1. The Cold War developments and the political and economic situation in Germany 1947-1948 -- 2. The foundation of the Kreditanstalt and its first action -- 3. Task, senior staff, internal structure and ways of operation -- 4. American money : counterpart funds and ERP special assets -- 5. German money : improvisation and improvements -- 6. Agriculture -- 7. Basic industries -- 8. Housing construction -- 9. Berlin, the Cold War's foremost front -- 10. Exports -- 11. Towards the development aid bank and beyond.

>> The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations and Provocations By John.
Description : Two decades ago, historian John Lewis Gaddis published The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, a pioneering work of scholarship that sought to explain how Americans found themselves, at the moment of their victory in World War II, facing a long, difficult, and dangerous struggle with an erstwhile ally, the Soviet Union. That struggle has finally concluded in a manner as abrupt, and with a victory as decisive, as the one Americans celebrated in 1945. In The United States and the End of the Cold War, Gaddis provides one of the first explanations of how this happened; he also considers what this outcome suggests about War history--and the post-Cold War future. The United States and the End of the Cold War contains significant new interpretations of the American style in foreign policy, the objectives of containment, and the role of morality, nuclear weapons, and intelligence and espionage in Washington's conduct of the Cold War. It reassesses, in ways sure to be controversial, the leadership of two distinctive cold warriors, John Foster Dulles and Ronald Reagan. It employs new methodological techniques to account for the sudden and surprising events of 1989. And it provides the clearest view yet of what a world without the Cold War is likely to be. Written with the vigor, authority, and adventurousness readers have come to expect from Gaddis's work, The United States and the End of the Cold War offers important new insights into how we got to where we are, and where we may be going.

Answer 5

daviD f winkler's cold war at sea