📚 The Cold War

The long standoff between the superpowers short of a shooting war — nuclear threat, proxy wars and the space race, and how it all ended.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject cold war in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The God that failed	R. H. S. Crossman	1949	18
	Understanding movies	Louis D. Giannetti	1972	18
	Rakety i li︠u︡di	B. E. Chertok	1995	14
	The Free World Colossus	David Horowitz	1965	13
	The Berlin Wall	Frederick Taylor	2007	13
	Cold War	Carole K. Fink	2013	12
	Agent Sonya	Ben Macintyre	2020	11
	Iron Curtain	Robert Vaughan	2000	10
	Cold War	Robert Vaughan	2002	8
	Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War	Silvio Pons	2004	8
	The Cold War	John Lewis Gaddis	2005	8
	Atomic Thunder	Elizabeth Tynan	2016	8
	The cold war	Odd Arne Westad	2017	8
	A history of the Cold War	John Lukacs	1961	7
	The cold war as history	Louis Joseph Halle	1967	7
	Cold war essays	Gar Alperovitz	1969	7
	Cold War	Bradley Lightbody	1999	7
	The Lavender Scare	David K. Johnson	2003	7
	Encyclopedia of the Cold War	Ruud van Dijk	2013	7
	Routledge Handbook of the Cold War	Artemy M. Kalinovsky	2014	6
	Allies at the End of Empire	David M. Anderson	2017	6
	The Jakarta Method	Vincent Bevins	2020	6
	The Cold War	Hugh Higgins	1974	5
	A history of the United Nations	Evan Luard	1982	5
	Origins of the Cold War	Kenneth M. Jensen	1991	5
	The Cold War	Martin Walker	1994	5
	A hard and bitter peace	Edward H. Judge	1995	5
	The dead hand	David E. Hoffman	2009	5
	Red Globalization	Oscar Sanchez-Sibony	2014	5
	Histoire de la guerre froide	Fontaine, André	1966	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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