1. Research Library

        The Cold War

        John Lewis Gaddis

        New York: Penguin 2005

        ISBN 9780141025322

      1. A concise history of the Cold War by one of the most renown Cold War historians (US). The book was written for non-specialists and in particular ‘for a new generation of readers for whom the Cold War was never ‘current events’.’ See in particular his discussion of the role of ideology in Chapter 3, ‘Command Versus Spontaneity.’