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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 282 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.52 — 89,534 ratings — published 2018
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 234 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 127,944 ratings — published 1963
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,459 ratings — published 2005
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 29,745 ratings — published 2014
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 160 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 106,186 ratings — published 1974
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,454 ratings — published 2017
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 16,057 ratings — published 2015
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,313 ratings — published 2012
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,499 ratings — published 2008
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,595 ratings — published 2003
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 119 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 389,182 ratings — published 1984
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,570 ratings — published 2009
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,602 ratings — published 2013
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 17,639 ratings — published 2020
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,315 ratings — published 1998
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 47,938 ratings — published 1961
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,826 ratings — published 2005
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 65,518 ratings — published 2019
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 72 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 42,184 ratings — published 1979
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 887 ratings — published 2005
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 66 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 84,991 ratings — published 1986
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,520 ratings — published 2022
Berlin 1961 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,903 ratings — published 2011
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 15,380 ratings — published 2007
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,084 ratings — published 2020
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 18,753 ratings — published 1965
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.65 — 78,717 ratings — published 2019
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,339 ratings — published 1977
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,314 ratings — published 2010
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,147 ratings — published 1985
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,002 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 — 13,360 ratings — published 2016
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,992 ratings — published 1968
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,500 ratings — published 2013
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,046 ratings — published 1995
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 118,706 ratings — published 2014
Our Man in Havana (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 41,408 ratings — published 1958
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,183 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 — 59,429 ratings — published 2005
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,012 ratings — published 2018
A Night Divided (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 47,756 ratings — published 2015
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,460 ratings — published 2023
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 415 ratings — published 2018
Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 14,442 ratings — published 1983
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,213 ratings — published 2014
Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman. From World War to Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,185 ratings — published 2012
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.74 — 96,524 ratings — published 1953
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,969 ratings — published 2014
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,373 ratings — published 2021
1983: The World at the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,020 ratings — published 2018
“Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.”
― U.S.S.R.-U.S.A. Summit, Moscow, May 29-June 2, 1988
― U.S.S.R.-U.S.A. Summit, Moscow, May 29-June 2, 1988
“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
