Some of the same titles and authors the C.I.A. sent east during the Cold War, including “1984,” are now deemed objectionable ...

In The World of the Cold War, Vladislav Zubok, professor of international history at the London School of Economics, recounts ...

Meticulously researched and deftly written, The World That Wasn’t is a spellbinding work of political biography and narrative history that will upend how we see the making of the early Cold War.

THE STATESMAN’S GAME by James Aldridge. 309 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Three spy novels that came in out of the cold war raise questions beyond the mere mechanics of this kind of fiction.

This book concludes his two-part study of the Cold War, which he believes began in 1944. It is also Volume 70 of the "Campaigns and Commanders" series at the University of Omaha Press. (It should be ...

“Charlie Wilson’s War,” the Aaron Sorkin-scripted 2007 film about covert ops in Afghanistan, presents Vickers as a wiry, hyperconfident wunderkind with a deep knowledge of military weaponry.

During the Cold War, there was always a bright red line by which Soviet intelligence would not conduct assassinations on U.S. soil. Europe and Britain were different matters.

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by William Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center for National Security and associate professor of public policy and history at the LBJ School of Public ...

As the architect of U.S. Cold War policy toward the Soviet Union, George F. Kennan believed his ideas had been badly misinterpreted. A powerful new biography probes a complex and often tormented man.