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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 306 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.52 — 96,120 ratings — published 2018
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 244 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 133,934 ratings — published 1963
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,793 ratings — published 2005
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,155 ratings — published 2014
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 164 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 109,993 ratings — published 1974
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,622 ratings — published 2017
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,571 ratings — published 2015
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944 - 1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,502 ratings — published 2012
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,614 ratings — published 2008
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 123 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 392,903 ratings — published 1984
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 24,035 ratings — published 2003
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,694 ratings — published 2009
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 20,615 ratings — published 2020
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,011 ratings — published 2013
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,757 ratings — published 1998
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 50,856 ratings — published 1961
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,217 ratings — published 2005
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 70,788 ratings — published 2019
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 907 ratings — published 2005
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,795 ratings — published 2022
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 73 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 43,181 ratings — published 1979
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,149 ratings — published 2007
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 67 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 86,156 ratings — published 1986
Berlin 1961 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,921 ratings — published 2011
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
by (shelved 64 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,727 ratings — published 1965
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,033 ratings — published 2020
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,138 ratings — published 2020
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.64 — 81,134 ratings — published 2019
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,808 ratings — published 2013
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,374 ratings — published 2010
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 27,337 ratings — published 1977
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,173 ratings — published 1968
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,194 ratings — published 1985
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,110 ratings — published 2023
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 62,529 ratings — published 2005
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 4.38 — 14,418 ratings — published 2016
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 122,092 ratings — published 2014
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,064 ratings — published 2018
Our Man in Havana (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 43,282 ratings — published 1958
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,151 ratings — published 1995
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,231 ratings — published 2006
A Night Divided (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 49,636 ratings — published 2015
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 442 ratings — published 2018
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,209 ratings — published 2014
Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,272 ratings — published 1983
1983: The World at the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,081 ratings — published 2018
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,041 ratings — published 2014
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,722 ratings — published 2021
Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman. From World War to Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,208 ratings — published 2012
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 100,765 ratings — published 1953
“ “We think a spy scheme could be brewing with one or more of the Middle East scientists going to Los Alamos.”
― Fatal Identity
― Fatal Identity
“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 his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him—the winning of a democratic election.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
