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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 268 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.52 — 84,882 ratings — published 2018
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 229 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 123,657 ratings — published 1963
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,202 ratings — published 2005
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,687 ratings — published 2014
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 155 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 103,546 ratings — published 1974
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,333 ratings — published 2017
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,599 ratings — published 2015
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,153 ratings — published 2012
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,436 ratings — published 2008
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 21,668 ratings — published 2003
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 115 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 386,364 ratings — published 1984
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,480 ratings — published 2009
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 15,606 ratings — published 2020
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,279 ratings — published 2013
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 10,951 ratings — published 1998
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,520 ratings — published 2005
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 45,677 ratings — published 1961
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 62,263 ratings — published 2019
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 69 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 41,480 ratings — published 1979
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 65 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 84,068 ratings — published 1986
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 861 ratings — published 2005
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,346 ratings — published 2022
Berlin 1961 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,883 ratings — published 2011
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,784 ratings — published 2007
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,017 ratings — published 2020
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.65 — 76,692 ratings — published 2019
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
by (shelved 61 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 18,066 ratings — published 1965
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 57 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 25,653 ratings — published 1977
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,852 ratings — published 1968
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,895 ratings — published 2020
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall (ebook)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 12,617 ratings — published 2016
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,242 ratings — published 2010
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,105 ratings — published 1985
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 116,039 ratings — published 2014
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,113 ratings — published 2013
Our Man in Havana (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,215 ratings — published 1958
A Night Divided (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 46,358 ratings — published 2015
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,140 ratings — published 2006
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,631 ratings — published 2005
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,979 ratings — published 1995
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 976 ratings — published 2018
Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman. From World War to Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,176 ratings — published 2012
Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,991 ratings — published 1983
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,015 ratings — published 2023
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 396 ratings — published 2018
A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 25,070 ratings — published 2017
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,516 ratings — published 2014
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.74 — 93,710 ratings — published 1953
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,897 ratings — published 2014
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,664 ratings — published 2003
“Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of the United Nations, the unreliability of Europe, the perfidy of the Third World and the need for nuclear defense policy? Question: Which Mediterranean government is Ronald Reagan trying, with the help of George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger, to replace with a government led by a party which professes socialism and which contains extreme leftists?
If you answered 'the government of Israel' to both of the above, you know more about political and international irony than the President does.”
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If you answered 'the government of Israel' to both of the above, you know more about political and international irony than the President does.”
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“High culture as well as low absorbed the impact of the anticommunist crusade, but the response of the nation’s artists and intellectuals was more complicated and ambiguous. This was not because McCarthyism exerted less pressure or encountered more resistance. The men and women who ran America’s symphony orchestras and universities were just as ready to dismiss and blacklist political undesirables as any movie mogul or advertising executive. And most artists and intellectuals were equally ready to conform their work to the political climate of the era.”
― Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
― Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
