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Small Island
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Small Island

By Andrea Levy ,

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The Wretched of the Earth
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The Wretched of the Earth

By Frantz Fanon , Richard Philcox (translator) ,

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Smiley's People
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Smiley's People

By John le Carré ,

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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
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One Minute to Midnight

By Michael Dobbs ,

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The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
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The Lavender Scare

By David K. Johnson ,

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Declare: A Novel
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Declare

By Tim Powers ,

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I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
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I Didn't Do It for You

By Michela Wrong ,

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Legacy
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Legacy

By Alan Judd ,

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The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
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The Global Cold War

By Odd Arne Westad ,

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Disappeared: A Journalist Silenced
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Disappeared

By June Carolyn Erlick ,

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The Korean War
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The Korean War

By Carter Malkasian ,

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Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
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Comic Book Nation

By Bradford W. Wright ,

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Redcoats
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Redcoats

By Stephen Brumwell ,

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Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator
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Joseph McCarthy

By Arthur Herman ,

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Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965
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Triumph Forsaken

By Mark Moyar ,

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The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
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The Crusader

By Paul Kengor ,

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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
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JFK and the Unspeakable

By James W. Douglass ,

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Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development
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Modernization from the Other Shore

By David C. Engerman ,

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Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone
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Chief of Station, Congo

By Larry Devlin ,

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Asteroids: A History
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Asteroids

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Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era
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Black Culture and the New Deal

By Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff ,

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Straight Up or on the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail
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Straight Up or on the Rocks

By William Grimes ,

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Time Out Great Train Journeys of the World (Time Out Guides)
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Time Out Great Train Journeys of the World (Time Out Guides)

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Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race
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Two Sides of the Moon

By David Scott , Alexei Leonov , Christine Toomey

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The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War
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The Spy Who Saved the World

By Jerrold L. Schecter , Peter S. Deriabin ,

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Bread and Wine
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Bread and Wine

By Ignazio Silone ,

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Russian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century and the Shadow of the Past
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Russian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century and the Shadow of the Past

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Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy
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Projections of Power

By Robert M. Entman ,

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The Entrepreneurial Society
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The Entrepreneurial Society

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The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia

By Maurine Hoffman Beasley , Holly Cowan Shulman , Henry R. Beasley

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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror
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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim

By Mahmood Mamdani ,

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The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
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The Cultural Cold War

By Frances Stonor Saunders ,

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DEFCON-2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis
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DEFCON-2

By Norman Polmar , John D. Gresham ,

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K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
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K Blows Top

By Peter Carlson ,

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Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution
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Guantánamo

By Jana K. Lipman ,

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NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe
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NATO's Secret Armies

By Daniele Ganser ,

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Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
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Rome 1960

By David Maraniss ,

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Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
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Contagious

By Priscilla Wald ,

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A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
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A Question of Torture

By Alfred W McCoy ,

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Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security--From World War II to the War on Terrorism
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Arsenal of Democracy

By Julian E. Zelizer ,

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How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic
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How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science

By George A. Reisch ,

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Endless War?: Hidden Functions of the 'War on Terror'
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Endless War?

By David Keen ,

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Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War
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Americans at the Gate

By Carl J. Bon Tempo ,

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Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era
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Cornerstones of Security

By Thomas Graham, Jr. , Damien J. LaVera ,

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Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age
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Red Moon Rising

By Matthew Brzezinski ,

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Common Women, Uncommon Practices
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Common Women, Uncommon Practices

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The Hawk and the Dove
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The Hawk and the Dove

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Red Spies in America
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Red Spies in America

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America's Geisha Ally
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America's Geisha Ally

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Imperial Brotherhood
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Imperial Brotherhood

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