The Cold War (nonfiction)
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.19 avg rating — 28,145 ratings 2. 
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
by:
Anne Applebaum
4.08 avg rating — 7,067 ratings 3. 
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War 3.62 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
by:
David E. Hoffman
4.23 avg rating — 15,409 ratings 5. 
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.52 avg rating — 83,089 ratings 
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Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
by:
Nina Willner
4.37 avg rating — 12,281 ratings 8. 
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
by:
Neil Sheehan
3.88 avg rating — 814 ratings 10. 
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by:
Eric Schlosser
4.27 avg rating — 14,175 ratings 11. 
Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster
by:
Markus Wolf
3.96 avg rating — 463 ratings 12. 
The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
by:
Jefferson Morley
3.93 avg rating — 1,091 ratings 
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.10 avg rating — 4,264 ratings 
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Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War
by:
Nigel Cliff
4.14 avg rating — 571 ratings 18. 
Brixmis: The Untold Exploits of Britain's Most Daring Cold War Spy Mission
by:
Tony Geraghty
4.05 avg rating — 78 ratings 18. 
Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
by:
Peter Wright
3.73 avg rating — 3,391 ratings 
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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
by:
Frederick Kempe
4.11 avg rating — 1,876 ratings 22. 
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
by:
Michael Dobbs
4.25 avg rating — 4,398 ratings 24. 
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
by:
Stephen Kinzer
4.13 avg rating — 4,062 ratings 
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The 300: The Inside Story of the Missile Defenders Guarding America Against Nuclear Attack
by:
Daniel Wasserbly
3.63 avg rating — 112 ratings 29. 
Spy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence
by:
Basel Saneeb
4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings 
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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts
by:
Scott Anderson
4.13 avg rating — 2,857 ratings 34. 
For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War 3.92 avg rating — 300 ratings
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The Year That Changed The World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall
by:
Michael R. Meyer
4.20 avg rating — 588 ratings 36. 
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
by:
Serhii Plokhy
4.23 avg rating — 1,868 ratings 37. 
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
by:
Stephen Kinzer
4.29 avg rating — 10,843 ratings 38. 
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
by:
Mark Mazzetti
3.85 avg rating — 3,932 ratings 
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From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
by:
Robert M. Gates
3.99 avg rating — 395 ratings 
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The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
by:
Jim Rasenberger
4.20 avg rating — 580 ratings 43. 
The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
by:
H.W. Brands
4.18 avg rating — 2,962 ratings 
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High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
by:
Max Frankel
3.77 avg rating — 130 ratings 51. 
Potsdam Mission: Memoir of a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer in Communist East Germany 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany 1945-1961
by:
Paul Maddrell
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 53. 
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
by:
David E. Hoffman
4.16 avg rating — 5,432 ratings 54. 
Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers
by:
James B. Donovan
4.06 avg rating — 1,626 ratings 
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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace 4.08 avg rating — 468 ratings
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Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America
by:
Jack Barsky
4.07 avg rating — 2,662 ratings 60. 
Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War, and the Twilight of Empire
by:
Calder Walton
3.77 avg rating — 175 ratings 
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Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master
by:
Paddy Hayes
3.29 avg rating — 205 ratings 63. 
The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
by:
Josh Dean
4.19 avg rating — 2,153 ratings 64. 
Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
by:
Jack Cheevers
4.24 avg rating — 712 ratings 
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Friendly Fire: Nuclear Politics & the Collapse of ANZUS, 1984 - 1987
by:
Gerald Hensley
3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings 65. 
Näher an die Ferne: Hologramm einer Reise (Veröffentlichungen des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerks) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone
by:
Larry Devlin
3.67 avg rating — 428 ratings 65. 
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Lights Out: A Cuban Memoir of Betrayal and Survival
by:
Dania Rosa Nasca
4.03 avg rating — 70 ratings 
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Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
by:
Michael Korda
3.90 avg rating — 208 ratings 65. 
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
by:
Craig Werner
4.03 avg rating — 300 ratings 65. 
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
by:
Kate Brown
4.13 avg rating — 1,370 ratings 65. 
Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia
by:
Kenneth Maher
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings 65. 
Anatomy of the World: The Impact of the Atom on Australia and the World
by:
Harry Redner
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
by:
Giles Milton
4.43 avg rating — 1,503 ratings 83. 
Red Steel: Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of the Cold War
by:
Russell Phillips
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings 83. 
Toward a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis & How We Got There
by:
Noam Chomsky
3.93 avg rating — 86 ratings 
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New Lies for Old: The Communist Strategy of Deception and Disinformation 3.70 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda
by:
Thomas Powers
3.61 avg rating — 118 ratings 83. 
Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
by:
Jefferson Morley
4.01 avg rating — 255 ratings 83. 
The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Causes and Lessons: For the Revolutionary Revival of the International Communist Movement really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
by:
Annie Jacobsen
4.32 avg rating — 6,439 ratings 83. 
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
by:
Sherry Sontag
4.23 avg rating — 10,812 ratings 83. 
Bridge Across the Sky: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948-1949
by:
Richard Collier
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings 95. 
Eye in the Sky: The Story of the Corona Spy Satellites (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight
by:
Dwayne A. Day
3.85 avg rating — 59 ratings 95. 
The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost
by:
Lester W. Grau
3.75 avg rating — 201 ratings 95. 
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A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
by:
Reza Kahlili
4.18 avg rating — 1,620 ratings 
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