Edward Judge and John A. Langdon, A Hard and Bitter Peace: A Global History of Cold War

Professors Judge and Langdon wrote a book, which slightly deviates from the neocon orthodoxy--American foreign policy is not depicted as a continuous thread of victories--and its motives are not described exclusively in terms of "promotion of liberty and democracy". Thus, Ed Judge teaches in Le Moyne College, Syracuse--not in Harvard, or Yale. You cannot find it in normal Google or Amazon searches, instead typing "Cold War in Asia" or "Cold War, Global", you will be directed to the usual neocon agitprop. I cannot even say whether this book is especially good, or bad, because local "Barnes & Noble" where I browse books that my limited budget and even more limited living space would not allow, already sold the only copy. But my limited browsing established that at least some Cold War conflicts are discussed in terms of Realpolitik, i.e. without obsessive desire to point at a moral lesson.