Cold War History Blog

Germany and France have reintroduced military service on a voluntary basis - it is time the British Government pivots and considers a similar scheme given the tensions emanating from Russia and the United States?

A review of A Woman Named Edith by Daria Santini, with additional commentary

The author describes his experiences appearing as a 'talking head' in a documentary about Cold War Berlin

At the time, most people were blissfully unaware of it, but 1983 became probably the closest the world got to nuclear war since the Cuban...