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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.51 — 98,000 ratings — published 2018
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,873 ratings — published 2005
George F. Kennan: An American Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,734 ratings — published 2011
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,652 ratings — published 2017
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,722 ratings — published 2009
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 913 ratings — published 2005
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,718 ratings — published 2015
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,636 ratings — published 2008
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,103 ratings — published 2013
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,878 ratings — published 1998
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.61 — 21,332 ratings — published 2020
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,517 ratings — published 2018
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,460 ratings — published 2018
From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,958 ratings — published 2018
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,974 ratings — published 2017
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,756 ratings — published 2004
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,880 ratings — published 2013
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 25,305 ratings — published 1986
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,180 ratings — published 1995
A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 105 ratings — published 1992
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 877 ratings — published
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 720 ratings — published 2007
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,465 ratings — published 2003
The Korean War (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,910 ratings — published 1987
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,273 ratings — published 2007
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,188 ratings — published 2018
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 143 ratings — published 1994
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 227 ratings — published 2024
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,265 ratings — published 2023
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,373 ratings — published 2023
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 72,219 ratings — published 2019
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 484 ratings — published 1997
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,080 ratings — published 2018
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,158 ratings — published 2021
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,794 ratings — published 2021
The Cambridge History of the Cold War (Volume 1)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 79 ratings — published 2010
The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,707 ratings — published 2018
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,167 ratings — published 2014
For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 311 ratings — published 2007
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,711 ratings — published 2013
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,787 ratings — published 2003
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,811 ratings — published 1988
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944 - 1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,559 ratings — published 2012
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,368 ratings — published 1973
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,570 ratings — published 2014
Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 866 ratings — published 1982
The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 48 ratings — published 2003
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 837 ratings — published 2009
Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
by (shelved 2 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 31 ratings — published 2009
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 130 ratings — published 2006