Cold War


The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
The Cold War: A New History
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
The Cold War: A World History
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Raiders and the Cross by Patrick LarsimontNadya's War by C.S.  TaylorFlight of the Intruder by Stephen CoontsFlight of the Old Dog by Dale Brown
Military Aviation Novels
88 books — 70 voters
Nixonland by Rick PerlsteinThe Final Days by Bob WoodwardNixon and Kissinger by Robert DallekAll the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinBag Man by Rachel Maddow
Richard Nixon (fiction and nonfiction)
136 books — 19 voters

Uber, Volume 1 by Kieron GillenZenith by Grant MorrisonUber, Volume 2 by Kieron GillenWatchmen by Alan             MooreThe Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
Superheroes in war
54 books — 9 voters

A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreThe Ghost by Jefferson MorleyA Spy Named Orphan by Roland PhilippsStalin's Englishman by Andrew LownieTreason in the Blood by Anthony Cave Brown
Cambridge Spy Ring (nonfiction)
30 books — 11 voters
Black Hawk Down by Mark BowdenA Higher Call by Adam MakosMasters of the Air by Donald L. MillerStuka Pilot by Hans-Ulrich RudelChickenhawk by Robert Mason
Nonfiction Military Aviation
218 books — 81 voters

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. ...more
John Le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Ian Buruma
Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.
Ian Buruma, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

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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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