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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 296 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.52 — 92,662 ratings — published 2018
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 239 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 130,799 ratings — published 1963
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,617 ratings — published 2005
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 30,459 ratings — published 2014
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 163 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 108,046 ratings — published 1974
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,547 ratings — published 2017
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,308 ratings — published 2015
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,409 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 — 4,563 ratings — published 2008
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 123 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 390,969 ratings — published 1984
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,284 ratings — published 2003
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,633 ratings — published 2009
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 19,024 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 — 14,833 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 — 11,544 ratings — published 1998
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 49,388 ratings — published 1961
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 67,960 ratings — published 2019
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,029 ratings — published 2005
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 72 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 42,671 ratings — published 1979
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 893 ratings — published 2005
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,642 ratings — published 2022
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,819 ratings — published 2007
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 66 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 85,543 ratings — published 1986
Berlin 1961 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,914 ratings — published 2011
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,571 ratings — published 2020
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,222 ratings — published 1965
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,819 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 3.94 — 2,169 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 — 3,073 ratings — published 2020
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.64 — 79,975 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 — 4,334 ratings — published 2010
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,669 ratings — published 2013
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,087 ratings — published 1968
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,766 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 — 13,949 ratings — published 2016
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 120,374 ratings — published 2014
Our Man in Havana (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 42,228 ratings — published 1958
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 60,917 ratings — published 2005
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,094 ratings — published 1995
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,207 ratings — published 2006
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,039 ratings — published 2018
A Night Divided (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 48,718 ratings — published 2015
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 427 ratings — published 2018
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,679 ratings — published 2014
Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 14,840 ratings — published 1983
1983: The World at the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,049 ratings — published 2018
Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman. From World War to Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,194 ratings — published 2012
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,581 ratings — published 2003
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,809 ratings — published 2003
A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 25,812 ratings — published 2017
“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.”
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“I had visions of an old horror movie in which Frankenstein’s monster stalked me through the streets. Another thought occurred to me: Maybe I was the monster, and villagers with pitchforks and torches were chasing me.
From the upcoming book, "The Shadow-Man.”
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From the upcoming book, "The Shadow-Man.”
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