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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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4.12 avg rating — 20,352 ratings
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
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4.06 avg rating — 5,848 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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3.58 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
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4.22 avg rating — 11,752 ratings
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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4.50 avg rating — 52,479 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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4.36 avg rating — 8,245 ratings
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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4.19 avg rating — 15,471 ratings
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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4.24 avg rating — 4,412 ratings
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
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3.84 avg rating — 762 ratings
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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4.25 avg rating — 11,997 ratings
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Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster
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3.94 avg rating — 373 ratings
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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
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3.84 avg rating — 609 ratings
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
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4.08 avg rating — 3,441 ratings
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The Cold War: A World History
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4.31 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
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Bridge of Spies
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3.83 avg rating — 3,595 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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4.12 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Brixmis
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4.19 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
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3.73 avg rating — 3,037 ratings
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
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4.06 avg rating — 1,327 ratings
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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
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4.10 avg rating — 1,668 ratings
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Red Plenty
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4.09 avg rating — 3,468 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918 - 1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II
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4.33 avg rating — 7,782 ratings
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
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4.10 avg rating — 3,096 ratings
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The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War
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3.95 avg rating — 275 ratings
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The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989
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4.06 avg rating — 1,829 ratings
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The Long Patrol: The British in Germany Since 1945
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The 300: The Inside Story of the Missile Defenders Guarding America Against Nuclear Attack
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3.51 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Spy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence
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4.02 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Afgantsy: The Russians In Afghanistan, 1979-1989
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4.01 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
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Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
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3.88 avg rating — 2,569 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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4.16 avg rating — 1,946 ratings
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For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
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3.87 avg rating — 259 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 — 509 ratings
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
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4.28 avg rating — 8,365 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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3.84 avg rating — 3,509 ratings
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Live and Let Spy: BRIXMIS - The Last Cold War Mission
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4.13 avg rating — 46 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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3.97 avg rating — 333 ratings
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BRIXMIS: The Last Cold War Mission
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3.42 avg rating — 12 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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4.17 avg rating — 473 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 — 2,320 ratings
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
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4.22 avg rating — 3,652 ratings
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The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
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4.25 avg rating — 893 ratings
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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3.93 avg rating — 12,051 ratings
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Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987
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3.69 avg rating — 1,025 ratings
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My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
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3.49 avg rating — 638 ratings
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Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR 1949-1989
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3.80 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin
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4.07 avg rating — 130 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 — 109 ratings
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Potsdam Mission: Memoir of A U.S. Army Intelligence Officer in Communist East Germany
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4.15 avg rating — 20 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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4.15 avg rating — 4,528 ratings
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
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4.32 avg rating — 1,041 ratings
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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace
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4.07 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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4.09 avg rating — 7,725 ratings
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Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America
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4.06 avg rating — 1,749 ratings
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Empire of Secrets
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3.81 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
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3.81 avg rating — 822 ratings
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Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master
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3.22 avg rating — 146 ratings
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A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean
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3.79 avg rating — 434 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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4.19 avg rating — 1,682 ratings
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Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
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4.27 avg rating — 614 ratings
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So Many Heroes
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4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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4.17 avg rating — 2,396 ratings
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America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity
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4.18 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Friendly Fire: Nuclear Politics & the Collapse of ANZUS, 1984 - 1987
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3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Naher an Die Ferne: Hologramm Einer Reise
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Oppenheimer Case: Security On Trial
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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You Can Trust the Communists
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3.63 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone
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3.66 avg rating — 382 ratings
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Operation Solo: The FBI's Man in the Kremlin
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4.15 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Lights Out: A Cuban Memoir of Betrayal and Survival
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4.19 avg rating — 52 ratings
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BLACKLISTED IN AMERICA
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4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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3.89 avg rating — 174 ratings
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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4.08 avg rating — 195 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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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1
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4.33 avg rating — 7,782 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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3.92 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Cold War: A Military History
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3.52 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy
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4.01 avg rating — 310 ratings
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New Lies for Old: The Communist Strategy of Deception and Disinformation
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3.73 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Russian Space Bluff
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2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda
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3.50 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
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4.23 avg rating — 1,205 ratings
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Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
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4.24 avg rating — 63 ratings
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USSR: The Velvet Counter Revolution
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4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 2
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4.50 avg rating — 2,411 ratings
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Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites
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3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost
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3.73 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Inside the League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League
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3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
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4.16 avg rating — 1,484 ratings
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Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America
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3.84 avg rating — 355 ratings
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A Cold War Turning Point: Nixon and China, 1969-1972
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4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
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4.09 avg rating — 4,879 ratings
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Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War
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4.16 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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Perestroika, The Complete Collapse Of Revisionism
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4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 3
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4.54 avg rating — 1,865 ratings
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1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part In Its Downfall
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4.14 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992
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3.98 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Reflections on a Ravaged Century
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3.80 avg rating — 217 ratings
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