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

Charlie English provides a fascinating account of how the agency smuggled Camus, Orwell and Vonnegut behind the Iron Curtain ...

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.

“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.

In “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science,” the University of California, Santa Cruz professor Benjamin Breen traces this research, and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Cold War calculations. Casualty estimates were part of the war planning effort from the beginning, a recognizable element of ascertaining the impact of nuclear strikes on a given country or set of ...