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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.52 — 93,137 ratings — published 2018
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,639 ratings — published 2005
George F. Kennan: An American Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,682 ratings — published 2011
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,640 ratings — published 2009
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 895 ratings — published 2005
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,563 ratings — published 2017
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,341 ratings — published 2015
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,852 ratings — published 2013
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.61 — 19,276 ratings — published 2020
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,433 ratings — published 2018
From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,940 ratings — published 2018
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,387 ratings — published 2004
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,697 ratings — published 2013
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 4.25 — 4,571 ratings — published 2008
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,153 ratings — published 2003
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,579 ratings — published 1998
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,880 ratings — published 2007
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,140 ratings — published 2021
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,565 ratings — published 2021
The Cambridge History of the Cold War (Volume 1)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 79 ratings — published 2010
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,215 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 3.92 — 2,886 ratings — published 2017
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,427 ratings — published 2012
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,926 ratings — published 1986
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,101 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 3.94 — 100 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 — 861 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 3.94 — 712 ratings — published 2007
The Korean War (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,820 ratings — published 1987
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 11,879 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 4.10 — 142 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 4.41 — 212 ratings — published 2024
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,322 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 — 68,390 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 — 480 ratings — published 1997
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,044 ratings — published 2018
Gorbachev: His Life and Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,351 ratings — published 2017
The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume II: Crises and Detente (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 43 ratings — published 2010
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,674 ratings — published 2017
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 3.65 — 115 ratings — published 2014
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 258 ratings — published 2021
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,153 ratings — published 2021
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,644 ratings — published 2020
The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,636 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 — 1,150 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 — 309 ratings — published 2007
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,651 ratings — published 2013
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,751 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 — 12,702 ratings — published 1988
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cold-war-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,457 ratings — published 1994
