Mar 10, 2017 if youre studying the cuban missile crisis with your students this october, here are two books to give them a young persons viewpoint on that time in history. Purchasing your cold war books through these links is a great way to support alpha history while saving money. Murphy, kondrashev, and bailey battleground berlin. No list of cold war spy books would be complete without this classic bond title. Britain, america and cold war secret intelligence specifically on the kgb. The greatest espionage story of the cold war kindle edition. Cold war history is now magazine, podcasts, blog and books. Best espionage books nonfiction some of the best books about real life spies and espionage. It hits the sweet spot between pageturning thriller and solidly researched history even the footnotes are informative and then becomes something more, a shrewd character study of spies and the. And dont forget we have two books out on the cold war. Nonfiction gives us the chance to look at the world around us and learn something about how we fit within it. Gaddis objectively analyses the events of the war as well as the reasons for such a turn of events. Read secrets of the cold war us army europes intelligence and counterintelligence activities against the soviets during the cold war by leland mccaslin available from rakuten kobo.
Five essential books on reallife espionage, from the story of legendary. His charade goes as far as enlarging sketches of vacuum cleaner parts and claiming they are secret installations. Lindseys spy book follows their story of amateur espionage in all of its strange, drugaddled glory. Authoritatively ranked lists of books sold in the united states, sorted by format and genre.
It was a cold casethe unsolved double murder of two teenage girls. Up until that fateful day, she was an ordinary housewife who was raised in an orphanage, had attended purdue university and was happily married to a naval officer with two children. The cold war is revisited twenty years after its ending, with the use of new archives and memories of its contemporaries. This book may be about war, but it is, like most of these books, mostly about people. Top 10 books about the cold war the long, nucleararmed standoff that followed the second world war was a terrifying parody of peace. Ps further reading is available at the bottom of this page. This nonfiction book is full of great stories and little known facts about the cold war. Notable nonfiction books in 2016 the washington post. Hoffmans the billion dollar spy the billion dollar spy is one of the best spy stories to come out of the cold war and all the more riveting. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books.
I hope readers who lived through the cold war will also find the volume useful, because as marx once said groucho, not karl, outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. The greatest missions of the israeli michael barzohar. The soviet counterintelligence agency smersh is after 007. In the book, which is based on true events, marie mitchell, a black fbi intelligence officer, joins a shadowy task force to undermine the charismatic president of burkina faso thomas sankara who has earned the. And nonfiction also tells us a lot about ourselves. A life of field marshall erwin rommel by david fraser.
This is a book about washington process and bureaucracy, for sure, but with the. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Can you guysgirls recommend a good or a couple of good books, that depicts the cold war preferably entailing all of the years of its existence which is up for discussion i know. Pbs secrets of the dead with historian nick wilding. Allen dulles, the cia, and the rise of americas secret government, by david talbotwhen americas secret government ran amok. Pages in category cold war fiction the following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. Secrets of the cold war focuses on a dark period of a silent war and offers a new perspective on the struggle betwee. Shop childrens nonfiction history military wars books at alibris.
Mar 5, 2020 literature pertaining to bunkers, the cold war, and nuclear arms. Its going to feel weird reading a book about a german general in wwii but for rommel we must make an exception. If this book was just about the head of the abwehr nazi germanys secret. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. See more ideas about cold war, history books and books. Cold war history series episode 10 end of the cold war. A new history is meant chiefly, therefore, for a new generation of readers for whom the cold war was never current events. A year ago she discovered the truth, that everything she believed about herself and her entire life was a lie. When it comes to reading nonfiction works on the cold war, john gaddis is a recognised historian of the epoque. On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, the daily beast sorts through the best new and old.
The secret life of cia spymaster james jesus angleton by jefferson morleyjames jesus angleton, the man who nearly destroyed the cia. Waltons study sheds light on britains actions during the cold war, and its withdrawal from its colonies. Allen dulles, the cia, and the rise of americas secret government, by david. See more ideas about books, historical fiction and books for teens. In the realm of cold war books dominated by male novelists and white protagonists, lauren wilkinsons american spy stands out. That was true even back in the cold war, when two unlikely and. We do not yet know the full story of the cold war, writes aldrich near the beginning of this impressive study of angloamerican secret intelligence. A normal life, susan truly wondered if shed ever have one again. Here are 15 nonfiction spy books even john le carre wouldnt put down. From actionpacked eyewitness accounts such as guadalcanal diary to devastating holocaust memoirs like the diary of anne frank and night to the thrilling espionage tale of operation mincemeat, world war ii is the subject of some of the most fascinating and influential nonfiction books ever written each year, seemingly dozens of new titles emerge to offer fresh. Best nonfiction books to read about cold warusrussia. Top 10 books about the cold war the long, nucleararmed standoff that followed the second world war was a terrifying parody of peace which inspired some brilliant literature francesca kay. Intrigue, deception, and the secrets that destroyed two of the cold wars most important agents. Top 10 books about the cold war books the guardian.
That was true even back in the cold war, when two unlikely and, apparently, unpatriotic friends discovered how easy it was to sell american secrets to the soviet union. Score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. The secret cia tactics that helped america win the cold war. Hardcover fiction october, 2019 hardcover fiction october, 2019. British intelligence, the cold war, and the twilight of empire.
The inside story of its foreign operations from lenin to gorbachev basically the precursor to the sword and the shield. Secrets, spies, special missions, and secrets weapons. The korean war nonfiction 91 books 2 voters cold war literary fiction. Childrens nonfiction history military wars books alibris. The greatest missions of the israeli secret service. It also has projects that one can do to bring the subject matter to life like building a carrot submarine or creating a ufo. The cold war is the term used to define the period between the end of world war ii in 1945 and the ultimate collapse of the soviet union and its satellite states in 1991.
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