Hello! I'm an older gen z from the US and have heard about the cold war my whole life, but I don't really know much about it. I would love some book suggestions about what it was like to be alive then and about how it is impacting us now. Thanks in advance!
by CatCrimes69
3 Comments
*In Mortal Combat: Korea, 1950-1953* by John Toland.
*Regime Change in Iran: Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq November 1952 – August 1953* by Donald N. Wilber.
*America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975* by George C Herring.
*Vietnam: A History* by Stanley Karnow.
*Breaking Up with Cuba: The Dissolution of Friendly Relations Between Washington and Havana* by Daniel F. Solomon.
*The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan* by Lester W. Grau and David M. Glantz.
*Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage* by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence Drew.
*The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World – Newly Revealed Secrets from the Mitrokhin Archive* by Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew.
*The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB* by Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew.
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_Ashes_(book)
The Cold War, by John Lewis Gaddis