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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 296 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.52 — 92,569 ratings — published 2018
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 239 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 130,715 ratings — published 1963
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,616 ratings — published 2005
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 30,442 ratings — published 2014
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 162 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 107,993 ratings — published 1974
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,543 ratings — published 2017
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,299 ratings — published 2015
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,406 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 — 4,562 ratings — published 2008
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 122 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 390,905 ratings — published 1984
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,264 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 — 5,632 ratings — published 2009
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 18,980 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 — 14,823 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 — 11,538 ratings — published 1998
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 49,348 ratings — published 1961
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 — 67,891 ratings — published 2019
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,020 ratings — published 2005
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 72 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 42,655 ratings — published 1979
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 893 ratings — published 2005
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,637 ratings — published 2022
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,802 ratings — published 2007
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 66 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 85,526 ratings — published 1986
Berlin 1961 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,914 ratings — published 2011
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,557 ratings — published 2020
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,206 ratings — published 1965
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,805 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 3.94 — 2,168 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 — 3,070 ratings — published 2020
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.64 — 79,937 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 — 4,333 ratings — published 2010
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,666 ratings — published 2013
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,087 ratings — published 1968
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,753 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 — 13,935 ratings — published 2016
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 120,331 ratings — published 2014
Our Man in Havana (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 42,207 ratings — published 1958
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,092 ratings — published 1995
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,204 ratings — published 2006
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 60,871 ratings — published 2005
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,039 ratings — published 2018
A Night Divided (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 48,692 ratings — published 2015
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 427 ratings — published 2018
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,660 ratings — published 2014
Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 14,832 ratings — published 1983
1983: The World at the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,049 ratings — published 2018
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 4.14 — 1,193 ratings — published 2012
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,561 ratings — published 2003
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 44 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,807 ratings — published 2003
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,999 ratings — published 2014
“The most dangerous place isn’t the bunker—it’s the truth buried inside it.”
― THE B-17 BUNKER: A Cold War Horror Thriller
― THE B-17 BUNKER: A Cold War Horror Thriller
“Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.”
― A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
― A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
