Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis to Detente Books
John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (2005)
Here's a great interpretation of Cold War events by historian John Gaddis.
David Reynolds, One World Divisible, A Global History Since 1945 (2000)
A detailed textbook history of the Cold War.
Margaret MacMillan, Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World (2007)
A detailed account of the meetings between Nixon and Mao in China.
Robert F. Kennedy and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1969)
An insider's look at the Cuban Missile Crisis from the point of view of Robert F. Kennedy.