It’s perhaps fitting that this year full of paranoia – about threats real and imagined – would see the publication of a trove of non-fiction about espionage and the Cold War.

Author Neil Sheehan examines the trickery, secrecy and rivalries in developing ICBMs in the Cold War struggle against the Soviet Union.

1In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote (1965). Capote's book about the murder of a Holcomb, Kan., family by two drifters remains just as compelling as it was when first published.

The rivalry between United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War, was the defining geopolitical relationship for decades. On occasion, you still get a film dealing with the United States and ...

Threads may not be the most popular war film, but its harrowing content is an immensely powerful testament to Cold War fears.

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For the past several years I have been putting together a list of that year’s best nonfiction, with special attention to books that taught me things I didn’t know. This has been an exceptional ...

NONFICTION A former editor of The New York Times sits down to write his memoir, and the title alone runs 24 words. But what else, one might ask, was a ...