Cold War

Just two years after victory in the Second World War, the divisions between the Soviet Union and the Western powers became unbridgeable. The Cold War had begun.

Revelations about the US nuclear codes during the Cold War from the man who helped draft the policy. 

‘Socialism with a human face’ came head to head with the realities of Soviet communism during the Prague Spring of 1968.

An invigorating take on the Cold War reveals the views of Russian scientists, politicians and senior military figures.

During the Second World War, Britain and the Soviet Union worked together in oil-rich Iran. Cooperation was to degenerate into suspicion at the dawn of the Cold War. 

Gerald Brooke’s time in a Soviet prison was a pivotal moment in Cold War espionage.

The UDBA is probably the least known major espionage agency of the Cold War. It remains influential, despite the break-up of the country it was formed to defend. 

The Six Day War of 1967, in which Israel devastated its Arab neighbours, also struck a blow against the military prowess of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact satellites.

The gradual opening of Chinese archives has revealed the appalling truth about Chairman Mao’s genocidal Great Leap Forward.