The Second World War stands for the criminal madness of German Nazi government. Less known is their responsibility for the only climatic shift from warm to cold

"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home." --The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thril

Relates the history of the Cold War arms build-up of 1950-1951, from the perspective of the Truman administration.

These halting efforts, complicated by the difficulties of managing the occupation along with Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, exacerbated an already monum

Collects essays that reassess the Cold War offering a more complex analysis of its history and legacy.

Focuses on the Seventh Army in West Germany--the largest and best-prepared field army ever deployed by the U.S. in peacetime--to show how the U.S. army redefine

This book offers the first account of the foundation, organisation and activities of the NATO Information Service (NATIS) during the Cold War. During the Cold W

With his policy of containment, US diplomat George F. Kennan (19042005) devised a way to resist the Soviet Union's attempt to conquer the world for Communism. T

Understanding the Cold War is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an Olympian assessment of the origins, si