Cold War (1945-1991)
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states (the Eastern Bloc), and the United States with its allies (the Western Bloc) after World War II. The historiography of the conflict began between 1946 (the year U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan's "Long Telegram" from Moscow cemented a U.S. foreign policy of containment of Soviet expansionism) and 1947 (the introduction of the Truman Doctrine). The Cold War began to de-escalate after the Revolutions of 1989. The collapse of the USSR in 1991 (when the proto-state Republics of the Soviet Union declared independence) was the end of the Cold War. The term "cold" is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, but they each supported major regional conflicts known as proxy wars. The conflict split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany and its allies, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences.
A Sword for Peace and Liberty Volume 1
Force de frappe - The French Nuclear Strike Force and the First Cold War 1945-1990
Europe@War #32
94 pages 108 colour & 58 b/w photos, 20 colour profiles, 3 colour & 1 b/w maps
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A Sword for Peace and Liberty Volume 2
French Nuclear Forces 1990-2025
Europe@War
80 pages c 100 colour photos
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A Welch Calypso
A Soldier of the Royal Welch Fusiliers in the West Indies 1951-54
188 pages 26 b/w photos
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Abolishing the Taboo
Dwight D Eisenhower and American Nuclear Doctrine 1945-1961
176 pages 15 b/w photos
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Armed Forces of the English-speaking Caribbean
The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago
Latin America@War #26
84 pages 72 b/w photos, 1 colour map, 13 colour profiles, 23 tables
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Battle for Angola
The End of the Cold War in Africa c1975-89
562 pages approx. 200 b/w photos, two 16pp colour sections
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Battlegroup!
The Lessons of the Unfought Battles of the Cold War
312 pages 15 b/w maps, 26 line diagrams, 2 graphs, 15 tables
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Brigate Rosse
Far-left Guerillas in Italy, 1970-1988
Europe@War #15
80 pages 103 b/w photos, 1 b/w ill, 3 colour photos, 1 b/w map, 9 colour profiles, 2 tables
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Che Guevara's Final Adventure
The Guerilla in Bolivia, 1967
Latin America@War #45
108 pages 355 b/w photos, 20 colour profiles, 7 b/w maps, 1 colour map, 17 tables
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Cold War Berlin: an Island City Volume 1
The Birth of the Cold War and the Berlin Airlift, 1945-1950
Europe@War #9
96 pages 110 b/w photos, 3 colour & 5 b/w maps, 16 colour profiles
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Cold War Berlin: an Island City Volume 2
The Berlin Wall 1950-1961
Europe@War #12
104 pages 12 colour profiles, 4 colour ills, 12 colour photos, 1 colour map, 117 b/w photos, 9b/w line drawings, 8 b/w maps
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Cold War Berlin: An Island City Volume 4
US Forces in Berlin - Preparing for War, 1945-1994
Europe@War #41
88 pages 71 b/w photos, 11 colour ills, 18 colour photos, 19 colour profiles, 3 colour maps, 7 b/w maps, 3 figures, 5 tables
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Defending Rodinu Volume 1
Build-up and Operational History of the Soviet Air Defence Force 1945-1960
Europe@War #20
80 pages 78 b/w photos, 21 colour profiles, 7 maps. 1 diagram
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Deter Suppress Extract
Royal Military Police Close Protection the Authorised History
240 pages approx 150 colour & b/w photos
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Doomsday Torpedoes
Live Testing of Soviet Naval Nuclear Weapons, 1954-1962
Technology@War #8
60 pages 48 b/w photos, 4 colour photos, 10 colour profiles, 2 colour maps, 4 diagrams, 12 tables
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Eagles of Destiny Volume 1
Birth and Growth of the Royal Pakistan Air Force 1947-1956
Asia@War #38
76 pages 68 b/w photos, 21 colour profiles, 2 maps, 1 diagram, 10 tables
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Flashes in the Dark Volume 1
USAF Covert Operations and Nuclear Intelligence in Argentina, 1946-1957
Latin America@War #50
96 pages 152 b/w photos, 12 colour profiles, 2 maps, 2 diagrams, 1 table
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Flashes in the Dark Volume 2
USAF Nuclear Espionage in Argentina, 1960-1966
Latin America@War #53
76 pages 113 b/w photos, 12 colour profiles, 2 colour maps
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Flight of the Dragon
A Taiwanese U-2 Pilot's Long Journey to Freedom
152 pages 25 photos
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From Julietts to Yasens
Development and Operational History of Soviet Nuclear-Powered Cruise-Missile Submarines 1958-2022
Europe@War #22
100 pages 113 colour & b/w photos, 15 colour profiles & figures, 1 colour & 6 b/w maps
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Gator on the Rise
Kamov's Hokum Attack Helicopter Story 1977-2015
144 pages 150 colour photos, 80 b/w photos, 30 b/w drawings
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Hot Skies of the Cold War
The Bulgarian Air Force in the 1950s
Europe@War #2
96 pages 101 b/w photos/ills, 4 colour maps (1 in colour), 3 colour photos, 18 colour profiles, 4 tables
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Hunt for the U-2
Interceptions of Lockheed U-2 Reconnaissance Aircraft over the USSR, Cuba and People's Republic of China, 1959-1968
Europe@War #3
64 pages 52 b/w photos/ills, 5 colour photos/ills, 10 b/w maps, 1 colour map, 15 colour profiles, 4 tables
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Jet Age Man
SAC B-47 and B-52 Operations in the Early Cold War
296 pages 34 b/w photos, ills & diags, 16 colour photos
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Making Waves
Admiral Mountbatten's Radio SEAC 1945-49
224 pages c 45 b/w photos, 11 diagrams
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Never Ready
NATO's Flexible Response Strategy, 1968-1989
Europe@War #16
102 pages 15 b/w photos, 89 colour photos, 3 charts, 22 colour profiles, 8 colour maps, 1 table
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Nuclear India
Developing India's Nuclear Arms from Reluctance to Triad
Asia@War #25
84 pages 68 b/w photos, 1 b/w map, 1 colour map, 8 colour plates, 13 tables
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Operation Cactus
Indian Military Intervention in the Maldives, 1988
Asia@War #26
66 pages 55 b/w photos, 2 b/w maps, 1 colour map, 16 colour profiles, 6 tables
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Pigs, Missiles and the CIA Volume 1
From Havana to Miami to Washington, 1959-1961
Latin America@War #25
72 pages 94 b/w photos, 3 b/w maps, 1 colour map, 22 colour profiles, 1 table
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Pigs, Missiles and the CIA Volume 2
Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Latin America@War #37
100 pages 84 b/w photos, 20 colour profiles, 1 colour map, 5 b/w maps
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Remembering the Dragon Lady
Memoirs of the Men who Experienced the Legend of the U-2 Spy Plane
408 pages c 225 photos 1 map
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Sanctuary Lost Volume 1
Portugal's Air War for Guinea 1961-1974. Outbreak and Escalation (1961-1966)
Africa@War #59
102 pages 72 photos, 5 colour photos, 15 colour profiles, 16 maps, 2 diagrams, 23 tables
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Secrets of the Cold War
US Army Europe's Intelligence and Counterintelligence Activities Against the Soviets
200 pages c 70 b/w photos
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Tailships
The Hunt for Soviet Submarines in the Mediterranean, 1970-1973
Europe@War #38
84 pages 59 b/w photos, 6 colour profiles, 18 b/w maps, 1 colour map, 12 diagrams, 4 tables
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The Armed Forces of the Gulf States Volume 2
Oman 1921-2012
Middle East@War #22
90 pages 73 b/w photos, 26pp colour section, 4 maps, 26 tables
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The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
Cold War Angolan Finale, 1987-1988
Africa@War #48
72 pages 85 colour photos, 21 colour profiles, 6 maps (1 colour), 11 b/w photos
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The Black Beret The History of South Africa's Armoured Forces Volume 2
The Italian Campaign 1943-45 and Post-War South Africa 1946-1961
368 pages c 275 b/w photos, maps
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The Collectors
US and British Cold War Aerial Intelligence Gathering
328 pages 32 b/w photos, 2 maps, 2 tables
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The Emperor's Own
The History of the Ethiopian Imperial Bodyguard Battalion in the Korean War
Asia@War #10
96 pages 88 b/w photos, 8pp colour section, 6 maps, 7 diagrams, 1 table
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The Erawan War Volume 1
The CIA Paramilitary Campaign in Laos, 1961-1969
Asia@War #24
64 pages 77 b/w photos, 8 colour photos, 6 b/w maps, 1 colour map, 6 colour aircraft profiles
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The Erawan War Volume 2
The CIA Paramilitary Campaign in Laos, 1969-1974
Asia@War #28
78 pages 72 b/w photos, 65 colour photos, 3 colour profiles
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The Hunt for the Storozhevoy
The 1975 Soviet Navy Mutiny in the Baltic
Europe@War #19
58 pages 44 b/w photos, 3 colour ills, 1 colour photo, 8 colour profiles, 3 maps, 6 tables
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The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Volume 1
Indian Military Intervention in East Pakistan
Asia@War #18
84 pages 89 b/w photos, 1 colour & 5 b/w maps, 20 colour profiles, 4 colour figures, 18 tables
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The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Volume 2
Showdown in the North-West
Asia@War #47
86 pages 59 b/w photos, 1 b/w illustration, 20 colour profiles, 14 colour figures & insignia, 1 colour & 14 b/w maps, 24 tables
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The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States Volume 1
The Trucial States and United Arab Emirates, 1951-1980
Middle East@War #16
72 pages 8pp colour profiles, photographs, maps and illustrations, c 150 b/w photos
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The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States Volume 3
The Aden Protectorate 1839-1967
Middle East@War #40
104 pages 175 b/w photos, 26 colour photos, 5 b/w maps, 1 colour map, 36 colour artworks, 17 tables
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The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States Volume 4
Bahrain Kuwait Qatar 1921-1980
Middle East@War #53
92 pages 94 b/w photos, 161 colour photos, 16 colour profiles, 4 maps, 10 diagrams
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The Modern British Army Volume 1
The Path to Future Soldier, 2010s and Beyond
Europe@War #44
84 pages 80 colour photos, 22 colour profiles, 3 diagrams, 4 tables
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The Sino-Soviet Border War of 1969 Volume 2
Confrontation at Lake Zhalanashkol August 1969
Asia@War #23
76 pages 3 colour profiles, 6 colour ills, 2 colour maps, 57 b/w photos, 10 b/w maps
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The Tanks
The History of the Royal Tank Regiment 1976-2017
232 pages 50 colour & b/w photos, 10 colour maps, 1 table
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The Trieste Crisis 1953
The First Cold War Confrontation in Europe
Europe@War #1
80 pages 123 b/w photos, 17 colour profiles, 4 colour ills, 2 maps, 9 tables
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The Whisky War Volume 1
Greenland, Newfoundland and Nunavut in the Second World War, 1939-45
Europe@War
96 pages 10 b/w illustrations, 100 b/w photos, 21 colour profiles, 15 b/w maps, 1 colour map, 10 figures, 10 tables
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Up Against the Wall
The KGB and Latvia
378 pages 80 b/w photos, 4 maps, 3 tables
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US Air Power, 1945-1990 Volume 2 Bombers 1945-1949
Part 2: Bomber Requirements, Bomber Types and Experimental Prototypes
Technology@War #7
88 pages 62 b/w photos, 39 colour photos, 16 colour profiles, 1 colour map, 4 diagrams, 12 tables
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We Were Never There Volume 1
CIA U-2 Operations over Europe, USSR, and the Middle East, 1956-1960
Europe@War #14
84 pages 77 b/w photos, 3 colour photos, 24 b/w maps, 1 colour map, 6 colour profiles, 8 tables
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We Were Never There Volume 2
CIA U-2 Asia and Worldwide Operations 1957-1974
Europe@War #17
90 pages 46 b/w photos, 4 colour photos, 10 colour profiles, 40 maps, 13 tables
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We Were Never There Volume 3
Higher, Further, Faster: Early US and British Cold War Overflights Behind the Iron Curtain 1946-1954
Europe@War #47
80 pages 76 b/w photos, 1 colour photo, 9 colour profiles, 1 colour map, 4 b/w maps, 1 table
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Whiskey-class Submarines
Soviet Project 613 Submarines in Service with Foreign Navies, 1950-1990
Technology@War #9
90 pages 132 b/w photos, 1 colour illustration, 29 colour photos, 7 colour profiles, 3 colour maps, 3 tables
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Wings over the Hindu Kush
Air Forces, Aircraft and Air Warfare of Afghanistan, 1989-2001
Asia@War #15
88 pages 59 b/w photos, 1 colour & 10 b/w maps, 49 colour profiles, 4 tables
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