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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 272 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.52 — 86,781 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 — 125,426 ratings — published 1963
The Cold War: A New History (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,314 ratings — published 2005
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,118 ratings — published 2014
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 158 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 104,712 ratings — published 1974
The Cold War: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,391 ratings — published 2017
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,772 ratings — published 2015
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,233 ratings — published 2012
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,468 ratings — published 2008
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 118 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 387,610 ratings — published 1984
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,072 ratings — published 2003
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,525 ratings — published 2009
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 16,489 ratings — published 2020
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,409 ratings — published 2013
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,105 ratings — published 1998
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 46,604 ratings — published 1961
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,657 ratings — published 2005
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 63,739 ratings — published 2019
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 41,809 ratings — published 1979
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 66 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 84,460 ratings — published 1986
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 873 ratings — published 2005
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 15,046 ratings — published 2007
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,433 ratings — published 2020
Berlin 1961 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,894 ratings — published 2011
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
by (shelved 62 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 18,379 ratings — published 1965
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,429 ratings — published 2022
The Secrets We Kept (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.65 — 77,680 ratings — published 2019
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 25,970 ratings — published 1977
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 — 2,946 ratings — published 2020
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall (ebook)
by (shelved 56 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 12,966 ratings — published 2016
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,277 ratings — published 2010
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,918 ratings — published 1968
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,123 ratings — published 1985
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,318 ratings — published 2013
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 117,164 ratings — published 2014
Our Man in Havana (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,725 ratings — published 1958
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,154 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 — 57,902 ratings — published 2005
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,003 ratings — published 1995
A Night Divided (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 46,961 ratings — published 2015
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 998 ratings — published 2018
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 405 ratings — published 2018
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 — 1,179 ratings — published 2012
Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 14,200 ratings — published 1983
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,216 ratings — published 2023
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.74 — 94,949 ratings — published 1953
A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 25,267 ratings — published 2017
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 9,830 ratings — published 2014
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 42 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,708 ratings — published 2003
Our Woman in Moscow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as cold-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 25,074 ratings — published 2021
“Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of the United Nations, the unreliability of Europe, the perfidy of the Third World and the need for nuclear defense policy? Question: Which Mediterranean government is Ronald Reagan trying, with the help of George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger, to replace with a government led by a party which professes socialism and which contains extreme leftists?
If you answered 'the government of Israel' to both of the above, you know more about political and international irony than the President does.”
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If you answered 'the government of Israel' to both of the above, you know more about political and international irony than the President does.”
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“Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything.”
― The Bone Church
― The Bone Church
