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Books like The Cold War: A New History
The best books like The Cold War: A New History are The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, The Anatomy of Fascism, and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis is about cold war, nuclear deterrence, geopolitics. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · History
Ben Macintyre tells the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who became the most important British spy of the Cold War.
Both dig into cold war.
Read the summary → - The Anatomy of Fascism
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer · History
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is William Shirer's comprehensive account of Nazi Germany from the early career of Adolf Hitler through the defeat of the Reich in 1945.
A kindred history read.
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- American Prometheus
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Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin · Biography
Kai Bird and Martin J.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - The End of History and the Last Man
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The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama · History
Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man was published in 1992, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the apparent triumph of liberal democracy as the world's dominant political model.
Shares geopolitics and ideology with The Cold War: A New History.
Read the summary → - American Moonshot
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Douglas Brinkley · History
Douglas Brinkley's American Moonshot focuses less on the engineering triumph of Apollo 11 than on the political decision that made it possible: John F.
Both dig into cold war.
Read the summary → - Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Eric Schlosser · History
Command and Control is Eric Schlosser's investigation into the hidden history of nuclear weapons accidents and the organizations that tried to prevent them from detonating by accident.
Both dig into cold war.
Read the summary → - Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen · History
Hitler's Willing Executioners is Daniel Goldhagen's argument that the Holocaust was made possible by a specifically German form of antisemitism — what he calls "eliminationist antisemitism" — that was so deeply embedded in German culture by the twentieth century that ordinary Germans participated in the genocide willingly, not reluctantly, and often with evident enthusiasm.
Both dig into ideology.
Read the summary → - Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956
Anne Applebaum · History
Iron Curtain is Anne Applebaum's account of how the Soviet Union destroyed civil society and imposed communist rule across Eastern Europe between 1944 and 1956.
Both dig into cold war.
Read the summary → - The Captive Mind
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Czesław Miłosz · History
The Captive Mind is Czesław Miłosz's study of how intellectuals living under Soviet-imposed communism in postwar Eastern Europe came to accommodate, justify, and eventually internalize the ideology they had initially resisted.
Both dig into ideology.
Read the summary → - The Changing World Order
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Ray Dalio · History
The Changing World Order is Ray Dalio's attempt to map the long arc of rising and declining empires through a systematic historical framework, with the explicit goal of understanding whether the United States is in decline and what a world with China as a co-dominant power would look like.
Both dig into geopolitics.
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Books like The Cold War: A New History: quick answers
What are the best books like The Cold War: A New History?
The best books like The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis are The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Cold War: A New History, such as cold war, nuclear deterrence, geopolitics.
What should I read after The Cold War: A New History?
A natural next read after The Cold War: A New History is The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre. Both dig into cold war. Other strong choices are The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
What books are similar to The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis?
The Cold War: A New History centers on cold war, nuclear deterrence, geopolitics. Books with a similar feel include The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
