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Cold War
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On the black cotton was printed a white skull and crossbones - the skull head grinning as if he were mocking her. The nun struggled for her breath and wanted to drop the evil little banner, but her fingers wouldn't let go of it - making her stare into its horrid death face as if she were looking at her own end.
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― The Bone Church
― The Bone Church
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The night had teeth. Wind tore through the apple trees, their skeletal branches clawing at the sky. Beyond the garden fence, the dacha settlement lay in uneasy slumber—rows of dark shacks, abandoned for the season, their windows blind and cold.
Chicken-wire fences sagged under rust and neglect, some topped with barbed wire that glinted like fangs in the distant glow of Moscow. Far off, a cement plant loomed against the horizon, a hulking silhouette of Soviet ambition gone to rot. To the north,
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― Last Tango in Moscow: A Cold War Tale of Espionage, the Mafia, and Forbidden Love
― Last Tango in Moscow: A Cold War Tale of Espionage, the Mafia, and Forbidden Love
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide und…more
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Cold War history, from Harry Truman and Robert Oppenheimer to Ronald Reagan the fall of the Berl…more
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