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Cold War Lists by Experts All Time Best Trending New By Book DNA List by Experts

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  • William Knoblauch The best books on the Cold War in the 1980s Book cover of We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes: Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan Book cover of The Other Eighties Book cover of Jonathan Schell: The Fate of the Earth, the Abolition, the Unconquerable World Book cover of With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush, and Nuclear War Book cover of Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
  • Alex Aaronson The best cold war books that turn into hot military thrillers Book cover of Blue Masquerade Book cover of Northern Fury: H-Hour Book cover of Red Storm Rising Book cover of All Union Book cover of The War That Never Was
  • Tim Tate The best Cold War spy books (non-fiction & fiction) Book cover of Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton - The CIA's Master Spy Hunter Book cover of Dead Doubles: The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spy Ring Book cover of A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal Book cover of The Ipcress File Book cover of The Prodigal Spy
  • Lee Polevoi The best Cold War novels told in the first person Book cover of The Untouchable Book cover of Berlin Game Book cover of Sweet Tooth Book cover of A Legacy of Spies Book cover of The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories
  • Robert D. Kaplan The best books on the Cold War from a journalist who lived it Book cover of George F. Kennan: An American Life Book cover of Armed Truce: The Beginnings of the Cold War 1945-1946 Book cover of The Cold War: A World History Book cover of Eisenhower: The White House Years Book cover of Smiley's People
  • Giles Milton The best books on the insanity of the Cold War Book cover of A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal Book cover of The Cold War: A World History Book cover of Bridge of Spies Book cover of One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War Book cover of 1946: The Making of the Modern World
  • Neal Thompson The best books on America’s path through the Cold War Book cover of Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America Book cover of Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator Book cover of The Origins of the Korean War, Volume I: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947 Book cover of Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 Book cover of The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
  • James Graham Wilson The best books on how we reduce the risk of nuclear war: from the Cold War to the present Book cover of Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era Book cover of Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine Book cover of Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb Book cover of Negotiating the New START Treaty Book cover of Nuclear War: A Scenario
  • Matthew Masur The best books about the Cold War that will keep you on the edge of your seat Book cover of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Book cover of The Quiet American Book cover of Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis Book cover of Fail-Safe Book cover of The Ugly American
  • Lorenz M. Lüthi The best books on Cold War history published recently Book cover of Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War Book cover of Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China Book cover of Latin America and the Global Cold War Book cover of A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union Book cover of The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany
  • Paul Lashmar The best books on the madness of the Cold War Book cover of The Wizards of Armageddon Book cover of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety Book cover of Who Paid the Piper? : CIA and the Cultural Cold War Book cover of The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation Book cover of Red Alert: The Novel that Inspired Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Sarah B. Snyder The best books on the end of the Cold War Book cover of How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed Book cover of Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War Book cover of The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR Book cover of 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe Book cover of Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War
  • Francis Gary Powers Jr. The best books about the Cuban Missile Crisis and aerial reconnaissance over Cuba Book cover of Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis Book cover of One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War Book cover of DEFCON-2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis Book cover of Blue Moon Over Cuba: Aerial Reconnaissance during the Cuban Missile Crisis Book cover of Countdown to 13 Days and Beyond: U.S. Marine Aerial Reconnaissance Operations Against Castor’s Cuba 1960-1990
  • Taylor Downing The best books on Cold War mysteries Book cover of The Target Is Destroyed: What Really Happened To Flight 007 And What America Knew About It Book cover of Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Book cover of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety Book cover of KGB: The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev Book cover of A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
  • Simon Mawer The best books around the Cold War from a child of the Cold War Book cover of The Untouchable Book cover of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Book cover of The Unbearable Lightness of Being Book cover of The Miracle Game Book cover of Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir
  • Steve Vogel The best and most accurate non-fiction books about Cold War espionage Book cover of Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors That Shattered the CIA Book cover of Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Book cover of Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets That Destroyed Two of the Cold War's Most Important Agents Book cover of The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal Book cover of The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War
  • Robert Craven The best spies, spying and cold war thrillers Book cover of The Mask of Dimitrios Book cover of From Russia, With Love Book cover of Kolymsky Heights Book cover of The Constant Gardener Book cover of London Rules
  • Jim Carr The best books about Cold War spies and secret agents Book cover of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Book cover of The Odessa File Book cover of Eye of the Needle Book cover of Cold Harbour Book cover of The Double-Cross System: The Classic Account of World War Two Spy-Masters
  • Deborah Lawrenson The best books about Cold War espionage with women spies and other heroines Book cover of Exposure Book cover of Secret Servants of the Crown: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence Book cover of A Shadow in Moscow: A Cold War Novel Book cover of The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt Book cover of The Widow Spy
  • Merle Nygate The best spy books that spies read and sometimes wrote themselves Book cover of Ashenden or The British Agent Book cover of The Human Factor Book cover of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Book cover of Berlin Game Book cover of A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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