# Cold War reading **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 13, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-reading/118739 "2002-07-13T03:38:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-reading/118739/1 "2002-07-13T03:38:00Z")
Can anyone recommend any reading on the cold war for someone who’s got the basic history channel education about it? Specifically as it relates to China preferrably. But anything basic that will give me a taste and send me in one or two directions and not something extra specific that will just have me confused. Erek ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-reading/118739/2 "2002-07-13T03:39:15Z")
This was meant for General Questions, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-reading/118739/3 "2002-07-16T07:45:24Z")
Come on, there has to be SOMEONE on the forum that can answer this. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-reading/118739/4 "2002-07-16T13:47:42Z")
Here’s a list you might check out…I can’t vouch for any of them though. [http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/coldwarbooks.html](http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/coldwarbooks.html)