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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.06 — 111,648 ratings — published 1974
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.09 — 135,994 ratings — published 1963
Our Kind of Traitor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.47 — 14,115 ratings — published 2010
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.85 — 51,871 ratings — published 1961
The Russia House (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,524 ratings — published 1989
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,919 ratings — published 2015
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,169 ratings — published 1998
The Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.19 — 570 ratings — published 1993
The Umbrella Murder: The Hunt for the Cold War's Most Notorious Killer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.95 — 527 ratings — published 2024
The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.24 — 900 ratings — published 2025
Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.15 — 764 ratings — published 2022
The Dark Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,850 ratings — published 2017
Vatican Spies: From the Second World War to Pope Francis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.33 — 67 ratings — published 2024
The Labyrinth Makers (Dr David Audley & Colonel Jack Butler #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.70 — 603 ratings — published 1970
An Insignificant Case (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,671 ratings — published 2024
The Year of the Locust (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.51 — 31,071 ratings — published 2023
Our man in Camelot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.76 — 187 ratings — published 1975
Skydancer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,113 ratings — published 1987
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.51 — 98,974 ratings — published 2018
Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.52 — 354 ratings — published
Inside Soviet Military Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.85 — 112 ratings — published 1984
The State Within a State: The KGB and its Hold on Russia - Past, Present, and Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.89 — 57 ratings — published 1994
Flawed Patriot: The Rise and Fall of CIA Legend Bill Harvey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.75 — 44 ratings — published 2006
Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation – George Blake, the CIA's Tunnel, and the KGB's Greatest Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,175 ratings — published 2019
The Pentagon Papers (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.98 — 574 ratings — published 1971
Soviet Airborne Forces 1930–91 (Elite Book 231)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published
Rising Tide: The Untold Story Of The Russian Submarines That Fought The Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.87 — 245 ratings — published 2003
Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,408 ratings — published 1988
The Little Drummer Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.99 — 17,559 ratings — published 1983
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,944 ratings — published 2016
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.73 — 20,075 ratings — published 1965
A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.89 — 26,471 ratings — published 2017
A Perfect Spy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.99 — 24,047 ratings — published 1986
A Most Wanted Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.55 — 14,786 ratings — published 2008
Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.81 — 432 ratings — published 2010
Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.85 — 143 ratings — published
Storm Front: The Epic True Story of a Secret War, the SAS's Greatest Battle, and the British Pilots who Saved Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.16 — 294 ratings — published 2011
The endless Game (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.40 — 109 ratings — published 1985
Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.70 — 50 ratings — published 2017
Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the U.S. Army's Elite, 1956-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.95 — 438 ratings — published 2017
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,143 ratings — published 1985
London Match (Bernard Samson, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,568 ratings — published
Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier's Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.21 — 24 ratings — published 2015
Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.78 — 249 ratings — published 2013
We Were Soldiers Too: The Unknown Battle to Defend the Demilitarized Zone Against North Korea During the Cold War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 2016
Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.94 — 202 ratings — published 2016
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Spy (Secret File #7)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,151 ratings — published 1976
Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,607 ratings — published 1983
Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.93 — 405 ratings — published 2013
The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cold-war-espionage)
avg rating 3.90 — 18,642 ratings — published 1962