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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 271 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.52 — 87,354 ratings — published 2018
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 235 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 126,031 ratings — published 1963
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,340 ratings — published 2005
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,272 ratings — published 2014
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 161 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 105,067 ratings — published 1974
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,407 ratings — published 2017
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 15,842 ratings — published 2015
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,259 ratings — published 2012
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,483 ratings — published 2008
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 118 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 388,031 ratings — published 1984
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,209 ratings — published 2003
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,534 ratings — published 2009
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,451 ratings — published 2013
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 16,769 ratings — published 2020
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,153 ratings — published 1998
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 46,913 ratings — published 1961
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,707 ratings — published 2005
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 64,228 ratings — published 2019
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 41,911 ratings — published 1979
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 66 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 84,589 ratings — published 1986
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 877 ratings — published 2005
Berlin 1961 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,897 ratings — published 2011
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 18,464 ratings — published 1965
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 15,141 ratings — published 2007
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,676 ratings — published 2020
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,465 ratings — published 2022
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.65 — 77,923 ratings — published 2019
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,070 ratings — published 1977
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,967 ratings — published 2020
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall (ebook)
by (shelved 56 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 13,045 ratings — published 2016
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,289 ratings — published 2010
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,941 ratings — published 1968
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,131 ratings — published 1985
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,373 ratings — published 2013
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 117,554 ratings — published 2014
Our Man in Havana (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,903 ratings — published 1958
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,162 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 — 58,352 ratings — published 2005
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,020 ratings — published 1995
A Night Divided (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 47,155 ratings — published 2015
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,004 ratings — published 2018
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 406 ratings — published 2018
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 — 1,183 ratings — published 2012
Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 14,255 ratings — published 1983
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,288 ratings — published 2023
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.74 — 95,332 ratings — published 1953
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 9,913 ratings — published 2014
A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)
by (shelved 42 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 25,330 ratings — published 2017
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,943 ratings — published 2014
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 42 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,719 ratings — published 2003
“I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.”
― Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
― Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
“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.”
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
