Bibliography

This page lists some of the best books on the Cold War. A number of people have helped me compiling the bibliography, and to them much thanks. The listing is probably incomplete in some respects. Most of the books are no longer in print, but may be borrowed through local libraries, or purchased from booksellers but be aware the prices of some are ludicrous. Many of my own copies were found in charity bookshops (chiefly Oxfam, Red Cross & Cancer Research), or at bookstalls run at local fairs.

•     Jean Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig Companion to Post-1945 America  - Published:  Blackwell Publishing (2005) ISBN 1405149841 

•     Christopher Andrew The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 - Published: Allen Lane (2009) ISBN: 978-0715-
  99885-4

•     Christopher Andrew & Oleg Gordievsky KGB: the Inside Story Published: Hodder & Stoughton (1990) ISBN: 0-340-48561-2
  

•     Jeremy Bernstein Nuclear Weapons: What you need to know - Published: Oxford University Press (2008) ISBN: 9780521126373

•     Eleonore Breuning, Jill Lewis and Gareth Pritchard (editors) Power and the People: a Social History of Central European Politics, 1945–56 - Published: Manchester University Press (2005)  ISBN 0719070694

•     British Medical Association The Medical Effects of Nuclear War - Published: John Wile & Sons for the BMA (1983) ISBN 0471902071

•     Stephen Brockmann German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour - Published: Boydell and Brewer (2004) ISBN 1571132988

•     Henry Buckton  Forewarned is Forearmed  - Published: Leatherhead. Ashford, Buchan & Enright (1993) ISBN: 1 85253 292 0

•     John Bulloch and Henry Miller Spy Ring: The Full Story of the Naval Secrets Case - Published: Secker and Warburg (1961)
  

•     Duncan Campbell War Plan UK -  Published: Paladin (1983) ISBN: 0 09 150670 0 (hardback), 0 09 150671 9 (paperback)

•     Duncan Campbell  The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier - Published:   Michael Joseph Ltd.(1984) ISBN-13    978-1326506155

•     Philip Carabott and Thanasis D. Sfikas The Greek Civil War: Essays on a Conflict of Exceptionalism and Silences - Published: Ashgate (2004) ISBN 0754641317

•     Nick Catford  Burlington -  Published Monkton Farleigh.Folly Books (2012) ISBN: 978-0-9564405-6-3

•     Nick Catford Cold War Bunkers  - Published: Folly Books Ltd (2010) ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0956440525 - ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0956440525

•     David Caute The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War - Published: Oxford University Press (2005) ISBN 0199278830

•     Bob Clarke Four Minute Warning-Britain’s Cold War - Published: Stroud. Tempus Publishing Limited (2005) ISBN: 0 7524 3394 6

•     Bob Clarke The Illustrated guide to Armageddon-Britain’s Cold War Published: Stroud, Amberley Books (2009) ISBN: 978 1 84868 496 6

•     Warren Cohen America's Failing Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations since the Cold War - Published:  Blackwell Publishing (2005) ISBN 1405114274

•     Wayne D Corcroft and Roger J C Thomas Cold War-building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989 Published: Swindon, English Heritage (2003) ISBN: 1873592 69 8

•     Simon Craine and Noel Ryan  Protection from the Cold. Published Yorkshire Wildtrack Publishing (2011)  ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1904098193, ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1904098195

•     George Crossley  Civil Defence in Britain  - Published: London Housmans (1982) ISBN 0852832109 ISBN 9780852832103

•     Mark Dalton The Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Posts - Published: Folly Books ISBN-13  978-0956440556

•     Mark Dalton  The Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Posts Published: Monkton Farleigh. Folly Books.(2011) ISBN: 078-0-9564405-5-6

•     H.J.G. Dartnall  The Plane Spotters-A medallic history of the Royal Observer Corps Published: Roberts, Reading (1995) ISBN 10: 1873058918  ISBN 13: 9781873058916

•      Saki Dockrill The End of the Cold War Era: The Transformation of the Global Security Order - Published: Hodder Arnold (2005) ISBN 0340740329

•     Saki Dockrill and Geraint Hughes (editors)  Advances in Cold War History - Published: Palgrave (2006) ISBN 1403934460

•     Tim Essex-Lopresti A Brief History of Civil Defence - Published:  Matlock. Civil Defence Association(2005) ISBN: 0-9550153-0-8

•     Mary Fulbrook The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker - Published Yale University Press (ISBN) 0300108842

•     John Lewis Gaddis The Cold War: The deals. The spies. The Lies. The truth  - Published: Penguin (2005) ISBN  9780141025322

•     Raymond L. Garthoff Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis - Published: The Brookings Institution (1989) ISBN 0-8157-3053-5

•     Till Geiger Britain and the Economic Problem of the Cold War: The Political Economy and the Economic Impact of the British Defence Effort, 1945–1955 - Published: Ashgate (2004) ISBN 0754602877

•     Samuel Glasstone (editor) The Effects of Nuclear Weapons - Published: United States. Department of Defense (Defense Technical Information Center) (various dates from 1955 - 1988))
  

•     S. J. Hamrick Deceiving the Deceivers: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess - Published Yale University Press (2005) ISBN 0300104162

•     Fraser Harbutt The Cold War Era - Published: Blackwell Publishing (2005) ISBN 1577180518

•     Peter Hennessy  Secret State -  Published (2002, 2003, 2010) Alan Lane ISBN: 978-0-141-04469-9

•     David E. Hoffman The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy  - Published: Doubleday (2009) ISBN 9780385524377

•     Col. John Hughes-Wilson A Brief History of the Col War: The hidden truth about how close we came to nuclear conflict - Published: Constable & Robinson (2006) ISBN-13 978-1-84592-258-4   ISBN-10 1-84529-258-8

•     Robert David Johnson Congress and the Cold War - Published:  Cambridge University Press (2006)  ISBN 0521821339

•     Klaus Larres The Cold War: Essential Readings - Published: Blackwell Publishing (2001) ISBN 0631207058

•     Peter Laurie  Beneath the City Streets - Published: Allen Lane (1970) ISBN 0-7139-0114-4

•     Peter Laurie  Beneath the City Streets Published: Penguin (1972) ISBN 10: 0140033815 ISBN 13: 9780140033816

•     Helen Laville Cold War Women: the International Activities of American Women's Organisations - Published: Manchester University Press (2002) ISBN 0719058562

•     Graham Lelliott  The Royal Observer Corps in Worthing - Published: by the author (2008) ISBN 09553893-3-X, ISBN 978-0-9553993-3-7

•     N. J. McCambley  Secret Underground Cities - Published: Barnsley, Pen & Sword Books (1989 and 1999) ISBN: 0 85052 585 3

•     N. J. McCambley  Cold War Secret Bunkers - Published: Barnsley, Pen & Sword Books (2002) ISBN: 0 85052 746 5

•     Wilson D. Miscamble From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War - Published: Cambridge University Press (2006) ISBN 521862442

•     Harford Montgomery Hyde The Atom Bomb Spies - Published: Hamish Hamilton (1980) ISBN 0-241-10271-5
  

•     Steve Moore and Alan Moore  Moaning Minnie: Thanet's Civil Defence Sirens - Published Ramsgate. Michaels Bookshop (2010) ISBN 10 1907369376 ISBN 13  978-1-907369-37-7 & (2020) ISBN: 978-1-912884-23-0

•     Jim Wilson Obe Cold War: East Anglia - Published: ‎ The History Press (2015) ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0750956380 - ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0750956383

•     Padraic O’Farrell  Down Ratra Road Published: Dublin. The Stationery Office (2000) ISBN: 0-7076-6506-x

•     Mike Osborne  20th Century Defences in Britain-The London Area - Published: Concrete Publications (2006) ISBN: 0 95403780 5

•     Jeannie Peterson & Don Hinrichsen (editors, for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) Nuclear War: the Aftermath - Published: Pergamon (1982) ISBN 0080281751

•     Oliver Ramsbotham Modernizing NATO's Nuclear Weapons 'No Decisions Have Been Made'  - Published: The Macmillan Press (1989) ISBN 0-333-4961-X  ISBN 0-333-49672-8
  

•     David Reynolds From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s - Published: Oxford University Press (2006) ISBN 0119284113

•     Fred Roberts 60 Years of Nuclear History: Britain's Hidden Agenda - Published: John Carpenter (1999) ISBN 1897766483
  

•     Ron Rosenbaum How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III - Published Simon and Schuster (2011) ISBN 978-1-84983-385-1

•     The Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - Nuclear Attack: Civil Defence, Aspects of Civil Defence in the Nuclear Age (compilation) Published: Brassey's Publishers (1982)

•     Richard Shirley The Royal Observer Corps Medal Published:  Leamington Spa. The Orders and Medals Research Society (2015) ISBN: 978-0-9568266-4-0

•     W. M. Spellman A Concise History of the World since 1945: States and Peoples  Published: Palgrave (2006) ISBN 1403917876

•     David Stafford Spies Beneath Berlin Published: John Murray (2002) ISBN 0-7195-6323-2
  

•     James Vaughan The Failure of American and British Propaganda in the Arab Middle East, 1945–1957: Unconquerable Minds Published: Palgrave (2005) ISBN 1403947147

•     Odd Arne Westad The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times Published:  Cambridge University Press (2006) ISBN 0521853648

•     Giles Whittell Bridge of Spies Published: Simon & Schuster (2010) ISBN 978-0-8570

•     Jim Wilson Launch Pad UK: Britain and the Cuban Missile Crisis Published: Pen & Sword (2016) ISBN: 9781473886650

•     Derek Wood  Attack warning red: The Royal Observer Corps and the Defence of Britain, 1925 to 1975  Macdonald and Janes.(1976) ISBN 0356084116

•     Derek Wood Attack Warning Red: Royal Observer Corps and the Defence of Britain 1925 to 1992 Published Carmichael and Sweet.(1992) ISBN 100951728318

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