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Cold War Books
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 282 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.52 — 89,525 ratings — published 2018
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 234 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 127,941 ratings — published 1963
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,459 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 — 29,745 ratings — published 2014
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 160 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 106,184 ratings — published 1974
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,454 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 — 16,057 ratings — published 2015
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,313 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 4.24 — 4,499 ratings — published 2008
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,594 ratings — published 2003
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 119 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 389,179 ratings — published 1984
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 — 5,570 ratings — published 2009
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 — 14,601 ratings — published 2013
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 17,638 ratings — published 2020
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,315 ratings — published 1998
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 47,936 ratings — published 1961
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,825 ratings — published 2005
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 65,513 ratings — published 2019
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 72 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 42,184 ratings — published 1979
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 887 ratings — published 2005
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 66 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 84,991 ratings — published 1986
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,520 ratings — published 2022
Berlin 1961 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,903 ratings — published 2011
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 15,380 ratings — published 2007
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,084 ratings — published 2020
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 18,752 ratings — published 1965
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.65 — 78,714 ratings — published 2019
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,338 ratings — published 1977
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,314 ratings — published 2010
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,147 ratings — published 1985
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 — 3,001 ratings — published 2020
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 — 13,359 ratings — published 2016
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,992 ratings — published 1968
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,500 ratings — published 2013
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,046 ratings — published 1995
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 118,705 ratings — published 2014
Our Man in Havana (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 41,408 ratings — published 1958
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,183 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 — 59,427 ratings — published 2005
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,012 ratings — published 2018
A Night Divided (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 47,754 ratings — published 2015
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,460 ratings — published 2023
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 415 ratings — published 2018
Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 14,442 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 — 10,213 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 — 1,185 ratings — published 2012
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.74 — 96,523 ratings — published 1953
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,969 ratings — published 2014
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,373 ratings — published 2021
1983: The World at the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,020 ratings — published 2018
“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.”
―
“Paul, tell him you need to talk to international security advisors. Briefly explain the army asked you to act as a temporary diplomat. You don’t have to give the details. Now, what are your calendar plans?”
― Counter Identity
― Counter Identity
