The Cold War (nonfiction)

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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America 4.14 avg rating — 9,253 ratings
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Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War
Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War 4.15 avg rating — 1,232 ratings
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USSR: The Velvet Counter Revolution
USSR: The Velvet Counter Revolution really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
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In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power (Dispatch Books)
In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power (Dispatch Books) 4.14 avg rating — 815 ratings
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Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History 3.87 avg rating — 14,315 ratings
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1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall
1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall 4.16 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992
Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992 3.88 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Reflections on a Ravaged Century
Reflections on a Ravaged Century 3.79 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984
Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984 3.97 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin
Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin 3.81 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill
The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill 3.89 avg rating — 980 ratings
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The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace 4.14 avg rating — 390 ratings
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Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War 4.30 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Perestroika: The Complete Collapse of Revisionism
Perestroika: The Complete Collapse of Revisionism 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1 4.37 avg rating — 11,717 ratings
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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World 4.61 avg rating — 14,815 ratings
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Charlie Wilson's War
Charlie Wilson's War 4.01 avg rating — 9,615 ratings
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Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-49
Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-49 4.13 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt
Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt 3.79 avg rating — 52 ratings
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We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History 3.81 avg rating — 512 ratings
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life 4.14 avg rating — 24,227 ratings
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Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain 3.56 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner 4.21 avg rating — 3,123 ratings
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The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order
The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order 3.90 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Quiet American
Quiet American 3.98 avg rating — 68,875 ratings
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Another View of Stalin
Another View of Stalin 4.01 avg rating — 378 ratings
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What It is Like to Go to War
What It is Like to Go to War 4.01 avg rating — 9,708 ratings
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The Last Division: Berlin And The Wall
The Last Division: Berlin And The Wall
by: Ann Tusa
3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean 4.29 avg rating — 589 ratings
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There Is No Freedom Without Bread!: 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism
There Is No Freedom Without Bread!: 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism 3.61 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Atomic Harvest: Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal
Atomic Harvest: Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal 4.18 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Cold War: A New History
The Cold War: A New History 3.94 avg rating — 8,096 ratings
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Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt For Putin’s Spies
Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt For Putin’s Spies 4.26 avg rating — 2,528 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 2
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 2 4.49 avg rating — 3,306 ratings
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Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War 3.95 avg rating — 1,868 ratings
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Pastfinder Berlin 1945-89: Traces of German History – A Guidebook
Pastfinder Berlin 1945-89: Traces of German History – A Guidebook 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War 4.12 avg rating — 447 ratings
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The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Missiles of November
The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Missiles of November 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Nixon's Back Channel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Détente
Nixon's Back Channel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Détente 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis 4.05 avg rating — 1,360 ratings
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CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why Us Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK
CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why Us Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK 3.73 avg rating — 493 ratings
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism 4.40 avg rating — 8,497 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 3
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 3 4.54 avg rating — 2,493 ratings
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Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War 3.55 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: The CIA Years and Beyond
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: The CIA Years and Beyond 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters 4.13 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
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The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service 3.47 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media 4.53 avg rating — 805 ratings
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Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War
Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War 3.84 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage
Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage 3.84 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Spy Trader: Germany's Devil's Advocate and the Darkest Secrets of the Cold War
Spy Trader: Germany's Devil's Advocate and the Darkest Secrets of the Cold War 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board
Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board 3.65 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
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Soviet Democracy
Soviet Democracy
by: Pat Sloan
4.30 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Early Cold War
Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Early Cold War 3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West
The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West 3.94 avg rating — 2,090 ratings
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A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974
A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union - 1962-1974 4.15 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam
Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam 3.62 avg rating — 98 ratings
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American Diplomacy: A History
American Diplomacy: A History 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.
Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. 3.65 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union
Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union 3.73 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929 (History of British Intelligence, 4)
Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929 (History of British Intelligence, 4) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Code Warriors: NSA's Code Breakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
Code Warriors: NSA's Code Breakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union 3.72 avg rating — 746 ratings
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The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan 3.86 avg rating — 811 ratings
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The Ukrainian famine-genocide myth
The Ukrainian famine-genocide myth 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War
Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,035 ratings
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Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGs
Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGs 3.94 avg rating — 409 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume Two)
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume Two) 4.49 avg rating — 3,306 ratings
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Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War 3.95 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Revisionism and the Demise of the USSR
Revisionism and the Demise of the USSR 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy
Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Castro's Secrets: Cuban Intelligence, The CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Castro's Secrets: Cuban Intelligence, The CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy 3.81 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism
Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House 4.12 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Stalin and Hitler: Twin Brothers or Mortal Enemies?
Stalin and Hitler: Twin Brothers or Mortal Enemies? 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Hidden Hand
The Hidden Hand 4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Mitrokhin Archive 2: The KGB and the World
The Mitrokhin Archive 2: The KGB and the World 4.09 avg rating — 587 ratings
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Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
by: Gus Russo
4.08 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Berlin-Cuba Crisis, 1961-1964
Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Berlin-Cuba Crisis, 1961-1964 did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Comrades: A World History of Communism
Comrades: A World History of Communism 3.60 avg rating — 552 ratings
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TROTSKYISM IN THE SERVICE OF THE CIA AGAINST THE SOCIALIST COUNTRIES
TROTSKYISM IN THE SERVICE OF THE CIA AGAINST THE SOCIALIST COUNTRIES it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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From Hiroshima to Glasnost: At the Center of Decision: A Memoir
From Hiroshima to Glasnost: At the Center of Decision: A Memoir 3.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia 4.04 avg rating — 1,881 ratings
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Kennedy and the Middle East: The Cold War, Israel and Saudi Arabia
Kennedy and the Middle East: The Cold War, Israel and Saudi Arabia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Secret Classrooms: An Untold Story of the Cold War
Secret Classrooms: An Untold Story of the Cold War 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe
NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe 3.99 avg rating — 392 ratings
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Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War
Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War 3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Soviet War in Afghanistan: Patterns of Russian Imperialism
The Soviet War in Afghanistan: Patterns of Russian Imperialism 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany
Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany
by: Joel Agee
3.49 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War
Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War 4.15 avg rating — 1,232 ratings
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Berlin: The Downfall 1945
Berlin: The Downfall 1945 4.30 avg rating — 17,971 ratings
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The Stasi Files : East Germany's Secret Operations Against Britain
The Stasi Files : East Germany's Secret Operations Against Britain 2.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department 4.02 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow
Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow 3.72 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II 4.26 avg rating — 2,008 ratings
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Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany
Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany 4.20 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War
Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War 4.01 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance (Council on Foreign Relations Book)
Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance (Council on Foreign Relations Book) 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Diplomacy
Diplomacy 4.25 avg rating — 9,163 ratings
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The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series)
The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South
Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
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