Ten years ago, a book about the cold war would, in the words of historian ... This had been epitomised by the 1945 Yalta conference, during which Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt split Europe ...

U-2 pilots conducted a total of 102 overflights of the People’s Republic of China from 1962 to 1968. The U-2 “Dragon Lady” ...

Norway's proximity to the USSR in the Cold War led to it building many military bunkers – some of them vast secret bases.

“Vladimir Putin!” the television announcer gushed in Russian, as the president tapped gloves with teammates towering over him on skates; another goal for Vladimir Putin. When it was over, no ...

One of the most widely known accidents that occurred during the Cold war was in 1966 ... A stone hit me in the stomach and I felt like my life was going out. I felt like death amidst the children ...

He was the most senior Soviet spy to defect during the Cold War. Documents declassified in ... He lived the rest of his life under U.K. protection in the quiet town of Godalming, 40 miles (64 ...