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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 313 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.51 — 97,932 ratings — published 2018
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 245 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 135,222 ratings — published 1963
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,867 ratings — published 2005
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,545 ratings — published 2014
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 166 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 111,028 ratings — published 1974
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,651 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 — 16,713 ratings — published 2015
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944 - 1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,555 ratings — published 2012
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,632 ratings — published 2008
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 125 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 393,663 ratings — published 1984
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 24,348 ratings — published 2003
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,721 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 — 21,303 ratings — published 2020
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,100 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 — 11,879 ratings — published 1998
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 51,493 ratings — published 1961
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 72,174 ratings — published 2019
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,320 ratings — published 2005
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 913 ratings — published 2005
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,846 ratings — published 2022
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 73 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 43,385 ratings — published 1979
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,267 ratings — published 2007
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 67 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 86,232 ratings — published 1986
Berlin 1961 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,924 ratings — published 2011
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
by (shelved 64 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,944 ratings — published 1965
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,252 ratings — published 2020
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,202 ratings — published 1985
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.64 — 81,548 ratings — published 2019
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,381 ratings — published 2010
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 27,566 ratings — published 1977
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 5,260 ratings — published 2023
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 — 3,168 ratings — published 2020
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,875 ratings — published 2013
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,198 ratings — published 1968
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 122,840 ratings — published 2014
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 63,597 ratings — published 2005
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,080 ratings — published 2018
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,683 ratings — published 2016
Our Man in Havana (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 43,727 ratings — published 1958
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,179 ratings — published 1995
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,247 ratings — published 2006
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,437 ratings — published 2014
A Night Divided (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 49,957 ratings — published 2015
Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,469 ratings — published 1983
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 444 ratings — published 2018
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,063 ratings — published 2014
1983: The World at the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,095 ratings — published 2018
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,793 ratings — published 2021
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 4.15 — 1,213 ratings — published 2012
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,214 ratings — published 2015
“Well, here’s the shocker,” said Kirby. “Majors Miller and McKinsey believe our former Captain Paul Remmich is acting as a spy for the Iraqi government.”
― Counter Identity
― Counter Identity
“Paul, tell him you need to talk to international security advisors. Briefly explain the army asked you to act as a temporary diplomat. You don’t have to give the details. Now, what are your calendar plans?”
― Counter Identity
― Counter Identity
