Frankel, Benjamin, ed.The Cold War, 1945-1991. Gale Research, 1992. Reference work on events and participants.
Gaddis, John Lewis.We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford University Press, 1998. A leading Cold War historian summarizes events from the end of World War II to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Judge, Edward H., and John W. Langdon, eds.The Cold War: A History Through Documents. Prentice Hall, 1998. Collection of 130 key documents spanning the history of the conflict.
Matlock, Jack F., Jr.Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended. Random House, 2004. A former ambassador to the Soviet Union discusses the role each leader played in bringing the Cold War to an end.
Walker, Martin.The Cold War: A History. Holt, 1994. History of the Cold Way by a veteran British journalist; makes use of documents from Kremlin archives.