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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 287 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.52 — 91,153 ratings — published 2018
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 237 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 129,392 ratings — published 1963
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,539 ratings — published 2005
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 30,093 ratings — published 2014
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 162 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 107,130 ratings — published 1974
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,493 ratings — published 2017
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 16,207 ratings — published 2015
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,357 ratings — published 2012
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,534 ratings — published 2008
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 122 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 390,034 ratings — published 1984
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,917 ratings — published 2003
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,609 ratings — published 2009
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 18,331 ratings — published 2020
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,737 ratings — published 2013
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,462 ratings — published 1998
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 48,742 ratings — published 1961
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,926 ratings — published 2005
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 66,629 ratings — published 2019
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 72 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 42,437 ratings — published 1979
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 890 ratings — published 2005
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,588 ratings — published 2022
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,602 ratings — published 2007
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 66 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 85,279 ratings — published 1986
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,378 ratings — published 2020
Berlin 1961 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,911 ratings — published 2011
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 18,986 ratings — published 1965
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,587 ratings — published 1977
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,159 ratings — published 1985
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,048 ratings — published 2020
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,350 ratings — published 2019
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,336 ratings — published 2010
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,025 ratings — published 1968
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,604 ratings — published 2023
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall (ebook)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 13,667 ratings — published 2016
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,599 ratings — published 2013
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 119,520 ratings — published 2014
Our Man in Havana (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 41,841 ratings — published 1958
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,070 ratings — published 1995
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,193 ratings — published 2006
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 60,075 ratings — published 2005
A Night Divided (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 48,246 ratings — published 2015
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,023 ratings — published 2018
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 422 ratings — published 2018
Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 14,611 ratings — published 1983
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,458 ratings — published 2014
Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman. From World War to Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,190 ratings — published 2012
1983: The World at the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,032 ratings — published 2018
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,990 ratings — published 2014
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.74 — 97,481 ratings — published 1953
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,074 ratings — published 2003
“The thing to remember about those “Cold War witch-hunts” is that they turned up a number of real witches. Alger Hiss was one of them. On the scale of academic fatuousness, NYU’s website honoring Alger Hiss ranks somewhere below Bard College’s decision some years
ago to accept money to create an Alger Hiss Chair of Social Studies.
But it is nevertheless a useful reminder that the doctrine of moral equivalence regularly results in moral blindness.”
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ago to accept money to create an Alger Hiss Chair of Social Studies.
But it is nevertheless a useful reminder that the doctrine of moral equivalence regularly results in moral blindness.”
―
“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him—the winning of a democratic election.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
