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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 287 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.52 — 91,162 ratings — published 2018
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 237 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 129,399 ratings — published 1963
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,539 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 — 30,097 ratings — published 2014
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 162 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 107,132 ratings — published 1974
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,493 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 — 16,207 ratings — published 2015
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,357 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 4.25 — 4,534 ratings — published 2008
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 122 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 390,038 ratings — published 1984
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,917 ratings — published 2003
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 — 5,609 ratings — published 2009
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 18,335 ratings — published 2020
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 — 14,738 ratings — published 2013
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,462 ratings — published 1998
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 48,743 ratings — published 1961
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,926 ratings — published 2005
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 66,634 ratings — published 2019
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 72 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 42,437 ratings — published 1979
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 890 ratings — published 2005
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,588 ratings — published 2022
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,602 ratings — published 2007
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 66 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 85,281 ratings — published 1986
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,378 ratings — published 2020
Berlin 1961 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,911 ratings — published 2011
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 18,987 ratings — published 1965
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,587 ratings — published 1977
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,159 ratings — published 1985
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,048 ratings — published 2020
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,356 ratings — published 2019
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,336 ratings — published 2010
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,026 ratings — published 1968
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,606 ratings — published 2023
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 — 13,668 ratings — published 2016
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,599 ratings — published 2013
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 119,522 ratings — published 2014
Our Man in Havana (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 41,844 ratings — published 1958
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,070 ratings — published 1995
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,193 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 — 60,077 ratings — published 2005
A Night Divided (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 48,247 ratings — published 2015
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,023 ratings — published 2018
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 422 ratings — published 2018
Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 14,611 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 — 10,459 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 — 1,190 ratings — published 2012
1983: The World at the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,032 ratings — published 2018
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,990 ratings — published 2014
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.74 — 97,482 ratings — published 1953
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,077 ratings — published 2003
“What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.”
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
“Vietnam was never a threat to America or Australia, but it was a threat to their perceived interests. For those selfish interests we fought and were maimed and died. It was not for patriotism, and not to save freedom or humanity: it was to save vested interests.”
― The Soldiers' Story: The Battle at Xa Long Tan Vietnam, 18 August 1966
― The Soldiers' Story: The Battle at Xa Long Tan Vietnam, 18 August 1966
