The Cold War: A Military History

BOOKS

Alexander, A. J., Armor Development in the Soviet Union and the United States (Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, 1976)

Alexander, J. H., and Bartlett, M. L., Sea Soldiers in the Cold War – Amphibious Warfare: 1945–1991 (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., 1995)

Archer, C. (ed.), The Soviet Union and Northern Waters (Routledge, London, 1988)

Ball, D., Targeting for Strategic Defence (International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, Adelphi Paper No. 185, summer 1983)

Bellany, I., Nuclear Vulnerability Handbook (Centre for the Study of Arms Control and International Security, Lancaster, 1981)

Campbell, D., The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier (Paladin Grafton Books, London, 1986)

Cave Brown, A. (ed.), Operation World War III: The Secret American Plan ‘Dropshot’ for War with the Soviet Union, 1957 (Arms and Armour Press, London, 1979)

Cochrane, T. B., Arkin, W. M., and Hoenig, M. M., Nuclear Weapons Databook, Volume I: US Nuclear Forces and Capabilities (Ballinger, Cambridge, Mass., 1984)

Cochrane, T. B., Arkin, W. M., Norris, R. S. and Hoenig, M. M., Nuclear Weapons Databook, Volume II: US Nuclear Warhead Production (Ballinger, Cambridge, Mass., 1987)

Collins, J. M., American and Soviet Military Trends since the Cuban Missile Crisis (Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 1978)

——Imbalance of Power: Shifting US–Soviet Military Strengths (Macdonald and Jane’s, London, 1978)

——US–Soviet Military Balance: Concepts and Capabilities (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1980)

Cook D., Forging the Alliance: NATO 1945–1950 (Secker & Warburg, London, 1989)

Corbett, Sir Robert, Berlin and the British Ally: 1945–1990 (published privately, 1992)

Cordesman, Anthony H., NATO’s Central Region Forces (Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, London, 1988)

Davis, J. K., et al., SALT II and US–Soviet Strategic Forces (Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge, Mass., 1979)

Douglass, J. D., and Hoeber, A. M., Soviet Strategy for Nuclear War (Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, Cal., 1979)

Fursenko, A., and Naftali, T., The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis: ‘One Hell of a Gamble’ (John Murray, London, 1997)

Geraghty, Tony, Beyond the Front Line (HarperCollins, London, 1996)

Gunston, Bill, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World’s Rockets and Missiles (Salamander Books, London, 1979)

——An Illustrated Guide to Modern Bombers (Salamander Books, London, 1988)

Hackett, Sir John, et al., The Third World War: August 1985 (Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1978)

Hanks, R. J., The Unnoticed Challenge: Soviet Maritime Strategy and the Global Choke Points (Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge, Mass., 1980)

Hölsken, D., V-Missiles of the Third Reich: The V-1 and V-2 (Monogram Aviation Publications, Sturbridge, Mass., 1994)

Isby, D. C., Weapons and Tactics of the Soviet Army (Jane’s, London, 1981)

Lashmer, Paul, Spy Flights of the Cold War (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1996)

Maloney, S. M., Securing Command of the Sea: NATO Naval Planning 1948–1954 (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., 1995)

Norris, R. S., et al., Nuclear Weapons Databook, Volume V: British, French and Chinese Nuclear Weapons (Natural Resources Defense Council, Boulder, Col., and Westview Press, Oxford, 1994)

Reznichenko, V. G. (ed.), Tactics: A Soviet View (English edition published by United States Air Force, Washington DC, 1984)

Rudolph, Lieutenant-Colonel G. T., ‘Assessing the Strategic Balance’ (paper submitted to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, June 1976)

Senger und Etterlin, F. von, Taschenbuch der Panzer (Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz, 1990)

Simon, J. (ed.), NATO–Warsaw Pact Force Mobilization (National Defense University Press, Washington DC, 1988)

Sokolovskiy, V. D., Soviet Military Strategy, 3rd edn, ed. H. F. Scott (Macdonald and Jane’s, London, 1975)

Sokolsky, J. J., Seapower in the Nuclear Age: The United States Navy 1949–80 (Routledge, London, 1991)

Staercke, A. de, et al., NATO’s Anxious Birth: The Prophetic Vision of the 1940s (C. Hurst & Co., London, 1985)

Sun Tzu, The Art of War, trans. and ed. Samuel B. Griffith (Oxford University Press, London, 1963)

Twigge, S. R., The Early Development of Guided Weapons in the United Kingdom: 1940–1960 (Harwood Academic Publishers, Chur, Switzerland, 1993)

van Cleave, W., and Cohen, S. T., Tactical Nuclear Weapons: An Examination of the Issues (Macdonald and Jane’s, London, 1978)

Walmer, Max, An Illustrated Guide to Strategic Weapons (Salamander Books, London, 1988)

Wiener, F., Die Armeen der Warschauer-Pakt-Staaten (Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna, 1974)

Woff, R. (ed.), Warsaw Pact High Command (Jane’s Information Group, London, 1989)

Wynn, H., The RAF Strategic Deterrent Forces: 1946–1969 (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1994)

Yost, David S., France’s Deterrent Posture and Security in Europe, Part I: Capabilities and Doctrine (International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, Adelphi Paper No. 194, winter 1984/85)

OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS

The Falklands Campaign: The Lessons (Cmnd 8758, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1982)

Glasstone, S., and Dolan, P. J., The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (US Department of Defense, Washington DC, 1977)

NATO: Facts and Figures, 11th edn (NATO Information Service, Brussels, 1989)

NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Force Comparisons (NATO Information Services, Brussels; issued in 1982, 1983, 1984)

Soviet Military Power (US Department of Defense, Washington DC; issued in 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990)

Soviet Naval Exercises: 1960–1984 (NATO Information Service, Brussels, 1985)

Texts of Final Communiques, 1949–74, 1975–80, 1981–5, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 (NATO Information Service, Brussels, published the following year)

United States Military Posture for FY 1983 (The Organization of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff, Washington DC, 1982)

US Army, Soviet Army Operations (US Army Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center, Arlington, Wash., 1978)

US Army, Handbook on the Satellite Armies (Pamphlet 30–50–2, Department of the Army, Washington DC, 1958)

US Army, History and Role of Armor (US Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Ky., 1971)

Whence the Threat to Peace? (Military Publishing House, USSR Ministry of Defence, Moscow; issued in 1982 (1st edn), 1982 (2nd edn (supplemented)), 1984 (3rd edn))

MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS

International Defense Review

Jane’s Defence Weekly

Journal of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies

Proceedings of the US Naval Institute

REFERENCE BOOKS

Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships: 1947–1995 (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1995)

Jane’s Armour and Artillery (Jane’s, London, various years)

Jane’s Fighting Ships (Jane’s, London, various years)

Janes Strategic Weapons Systems (Jane’s, London, various years)

The Military Balance (International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, various years)

World Armaments and Disarmament Yearbook (SIPRI, Stockholm, Sweden, various years)

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

Documents held in the British Public Record Office are acknowledged in the notes with the prefix ‘PRO’.