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Cold war book recommendations

lizzylad84 · 2018-02-27 17:58:00

I know a pitiful amount about the cold war and I'd like some book recommendations on the subject. A kind if general history of the topic.

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27-02-2018 6:58pm

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I know a pitiful amount about the cold war and I'd like some book recommendations on the subject. A kind if general history of the topic.

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One of the classics of this period is John Lewis Gaddis' "The Cold War". The authors tilts towards the Western side but overall very readable.
For a work that dwells on the numerous hot wars of the period I'd recommend Michael Burleigh's "Small wars in far away places".
For a pivot moment in that period, there is Michael Dobb's "Minutes to Midnight" on the Cuban missile crisis, which uses Soviet era archives to show how close it came to WWIII.

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