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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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4.19 avg rating — 29,230 ratings
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
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4.08 avg rating — 7,255 ratings
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The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
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3.63 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
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4.24 avg rating — 15,827 ratings
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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4.52 avg rating — 87,220 ratings
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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4.20 avg rating — 22,178 ratings
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Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
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4.37 avg rating — 13,032 ratings
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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4.26 avg rating — 5,311 ratings
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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4.27 avg rating — 14,442 ratings
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
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3.88 avg rating — 821 ratings
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Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster
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3.97 avg rating — 480 ratings
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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
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3.94 avg rating — 1,170 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago
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4.35 avg rating — 13,780 ratings
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
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4.10 avg rating — 4,363 ratings
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The Cold War: A World History
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4.31 avg rating — 2,405 ratings
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Bridge of Spies
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3.84 avg rating — 4,287 ratings
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Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War
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4.14 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Brixmis: The Untold Exploits of Britain's Most Daring Cold War Spy Mission
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4.05 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
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3.73 avg rating — 3,437 ratings
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
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4.09 avg rating — 1,714 ratings
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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
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4.11 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
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Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream
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4.07 avg rating — 4,497 ratings
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
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4.24 avg rating — 4,479 ratings
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
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4.14 avg rating — 4,358 ratings
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The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War
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3.93 avg rating — 311 ratings
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The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989
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4.08 avg rating — 2,157 ratings
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The Long Patrol: The British in Germany Since 1945
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean
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3.81 avg rating — 584 ratings
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The 300: The Inside Story of the Missile Defenders Guarding America Against Nuclear Attack
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3.65 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Spy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Afgantsy: The Russians In Afghanistan, 1979-1989
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4.02 avg rating — 1,320 ratings
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Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
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3.88 avg rating — 2,702 ratings
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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts
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4.13 avg rating — 2,962 ratings
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For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
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3.92 avg rating — 305 ratings
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The Year That Changed The World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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4.20 avg rating — 594 ratings
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The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
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4.24 avg rating — 1,940 ratings
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
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4.29 avg rating — 11,382 ratings
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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
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3.85 avg rating — 3,954 ratings
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Live and Let Spy
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4.10 avg rating — 68 ratings
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From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
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3.99 avg rating — 399 ratings
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BRIXMIS: The Last Cold War Mission
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3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
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4.20 avg rating — 596 ratings
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
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4.18 avg rating — 3,023 ratings
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The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
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4.26 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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3.95 avg rating — 15,123 ratings
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Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987
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3.71 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
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My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
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3.51 avg rating — 781 ratings
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Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR 1949-1989
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3.75 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin
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4.15 avg rating — 167 ratings
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High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
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3.80 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Potsdam Mission: Memoir of a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer in Communist East Germany
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4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany 1945-1961
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
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4.16 avg rating — 5,532 ratings
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Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers
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4.06 avg rating — 1,644 ratings
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
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4.34 avg rating — 1,568 ratings
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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace
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4.09 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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4.08 avg rating — 8,933 ratings
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The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
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3.96 avg rating — 3,908 ratings
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Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America
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4.08 avg rating — 2,752 ratings
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Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War, and the Twilight of Empire
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3.77 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
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3.83 avg rating — 1,079 ratings
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Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master
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3.29 avg rating — 214 ratings
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The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
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4.20 avg rating — 2,214 ratings
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Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
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4.24 avg rating — 726 ratings
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So Many Heroes
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4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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4.20 avg rating — 3,013 ratings
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America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity
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4.13 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Friendly Fire: Nuclear Politics & the Collapse of ANZUS, 1984 - 1987
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3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Näher an die Ferne: Hologramm einer Reise (Veröffentlichungen des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerks)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Oppenheimer Case: Security On Trial
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4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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You Can Trust the Communists
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3.47 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone
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3.68 avg rating — 432 ratings
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Operation Solo: The FBI's Man in the Kremlin
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4.15 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Lights Out: A Cuban Memoir of Betrayal and Survival
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4.03 avg rating — 70 ratings
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BLACKLISTED IN AMERICA
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4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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3.91 avg rating — 214 ratings
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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4.02 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
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4.13 avg rating — 1,416 ratings
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Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia
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4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Anatomy of the World: The Impact of the Atom on Australia and the World
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Soviet White Paper on the North Atlantic Pact
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
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4.43 avg rating — 1,597 ratings
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The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World
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4.48 avg rating — 461 ratings
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Sparkles And Karim: Iraq 2014
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Able Queen: Memoirs of a Hump Pilot Lost in the Himalayas
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Evolución Política Del Pueblo Mexicano JUSTO SIERRA, Historia política de México desde las civilizaciones originarias hasta el Porfiriato — Political ... Ancient Civilizations to
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Men As Friends: From Cicero to Svevo to Cataldo
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Red Steel: Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of the Cold War
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3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Toward a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis & How We Got There
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3.95 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Cold War: A Military History
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3.58 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy
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4.06 avg rating — 439 ratings
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New Lies for Old: The Communist Strategy of Deception and Disinformation
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3.74 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Russian space bluff;
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2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda
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3.67 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 270 ratings
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Causes and Lessons: For the Revolutionary Revival of the International Communist Movement
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
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4.32 avg rating — 6,958 ratings
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
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4.24 avg rating — 11,141 ratings
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Bridge Across the Sky: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948-1949
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3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites
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3.87 avg rating — 60 ratings
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