Any recs for books on the cold war????

[Deathraystare]

HI

For some reason I have got interested in this but aware of my lack of knowledge in it.

Can anyone recommend they or their partner read that was quite easy to digest?

Thanks'

Aybss by Max Hastings.
Deals primarily with the Cuban missile crisis (possibly THE biggest flashpoint of the Cold War?) but does talk about so much more and gives a good insight into the way the world was at the time.

@Cotswoldbee

Many thanks for the reply!

Anne Applebaum is a very important commentator on East-West relations past and present. You'll see her called upon in news progs whenever anything in that field is occurring. The book of hers that deals most closely with the Cold War is probably this one.
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56: Amazon.co.uk: Applebaum, Anne: 9780141021874: Books

This.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/435445/the-cold-war-by-bridget-kendall/9781785942600

Thanks @CanapeJane and @heldinadream

Ooops. I just bought a copy of @CanapeJane 's suggestion. I am a book addict.

There are quite a few 2nd hand copies of it on Abebooks, @Deathraystare at least four or five copies under £3.50 including p&p.

I've read quite a lot of fiction about it, John Le Carre, Len Deighton etc etc. They were written either during it or not long after it...and are great for a real feeling of the times.

If you ever get the chance to go to Berlin there's some great museums about the Cold War.

I don't know about books. But the term 'Cold War' seems to have been coined by George Orwell in this essay:

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/you-and-the-atom-bomb/

Thanks all!!!