What to Read After The Cold War
Readers who loved The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Cold War is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Cold War
The Global Cold War
(A failed empire)
Mao's China and the Cold War (The New Cold War History)
The Cold War
The roads to modernity
The Rise and Fall of Communism
The sixties
The dead hand
A Failed Empire
Strategies of containment
Iron Curtain
Postwar
Rise to globalism
Paris 1919
Legacy of Ashes
Gulag
Vietnam, a history
A History of Warfare
D-Day
The Second World War
What is history?
Way of the Knife
The tragedy of American diplomacy
The Fate of Africa