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Cold War Books

Books selected for readers looking for cold war books.

28 booksApril 2, 2026

Part of 470+ tracked lists·69% reader overlap with Diplomacy Books

1. The CIA Book Club
Charlie English
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Cold War History
2. Spies
Marc Favreau
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Intelligence & Espionage
3. Cold Warriors
Duncan White
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Cold War History
4. New Cold Wars
David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Cold War History
5. The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Intelligence & Espionage
6. Big Intel
J. Michael Waller
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Cold War History
7. The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Cold War History
8. The Cold War's Killing Fields
Paul Thomas Chamberlin
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Cold War History
9. Fallout
Steve Sheinkin
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
10. Nuclear Folly
Serhii Plokhy, Keith Sellon-Wright
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
11. From Cold War to Hot Peace
Michael McFaul
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Cold War History
12. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
Stephen Kinzer
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Intelligence & Espionage
13. Polar War
Kenneth R. Rosen
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Polar Worlds
14. The Dead Hand
David Hoffman, David E. Hoffman
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
15. Stealth War
Robert Spalding, Ray Porter
Fits this list for its focus on war.
Shelf signal: World Politics
16. Hidden History of the Korean War
I.F. Stone, Gregory Elich
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Korean War History
17. Covert Regime Change
Lindsey A. O'Rourke, Lindsey A. O'Rourke
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Cold War History
18. Forty Autumns
Nina Willner
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Eastern European History
19. Beyond the Wall
Katja Hoyer, Sam Peter Jackson
Fits this list for its focus on war.
Shelf signal: Eastern European History
20. In True Face
Jonna Mendez, Jonna Méndez
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Intelligence & Espionage
21. Camp Century
Henry Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen
Fits this list for its focus on cold and war.
Shelf signal: Polar Worlds
22. To Overthrow the World
Sean McMeekin
Included for strong social alignment with this cold war list.
Shelf signal: Cold War History
23. Three Revolutions
Simon Hall
Included for strong history alignment with this cold war list.
Shelf signal: 20th-Century History
24. Into the Lion's Mouth
Larry Loftis, Eric G. Dove
Fits this list for its focus on war.
Shelf signal: Intelligence & Espionage