Cold War


The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
The Cold War: A New History
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
The Cold War: A World History
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
DECEIT v. DECEIT by Vernon BaumrindSpy... for Nobody! by Basel Saneebجاسوس من أجل لا أحد by Basel SaneebSpy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence by Basel SaneebThe Ghost by Jefferson Morley
CIA: Suggested Reading List
118 books — 26 voters
New Space Capitalism by Rainer ZitelmannThe Martian by Andy WeirProject Hail Mary by Andy WeirThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsSkunk Works by Ben R. Rich
Books for the Discerning Space Fan
36 books — 9 voters

1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonJohn Adams by David McCulloughA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
U.S. History Reading List
470 books — 173 voters
Nixonland by Rick PerlsteinNixon and Kissinger by Robert DallekAll the President’s Men by Carl BernsteinDisputed Pasts by Cristina Buarque de HollandaThe Final Days by Bob Woodward
Richard Nixon (fiction and nonfiction)
144 books — 26 voters

New Atlantis Revisited by Paul R. JosephsonEngineering Communism by Steven T. UsdinHow Not to Network a Nation by Benjamin PetersComputing in Russia by Georg TrogemannFrom Newspeak to Cyberspeak by Slava Gerovitch
Soviet Computing
44 books — 3 voters

Christopher Hitchens
It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with hi ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Karl Braungart
Let’s not forget—we already have a highly ranked officer secretly working for us at Patch Barracks, V Corps headquarters.
Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

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