Ov e r co l d war seas

Our pick of the latest military history books

Could lessons from the last great conflict help the democratic world triumph over the rise in autocratic power?

America withdraws its troops, missiles and money, and leaves Europe to fend for itself against the USSR

Intelligence veteran Mark Lowenthal reveals how after a shift to counter-terrorism from the 1990s, spycraft is returning to its Cold War operations

Is the US Navy still dominant in the Pacific, or is its era of ascendancy under threat?

On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying