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Author
Publisher
Four Walls Eight Windows
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Raymond Shaw returns home from the Korean War to an uproarious welcome from the press and his fellow Americans. Little does anyone realize, not even Shaw himself, that Communist conspirators have planted a secret trigger in his unconscious mind that is intended to allow them to use him as an assassin.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
"The Cold War has spawned many interpreters over the years, but this comprehensive, accessible, richly illustrated volume is the first to benefit from the recent openings of Soviet, East European, and Chinese archives. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship and newly uncovered evidence, Sir Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing are able to present for the first time what actually transpired in secret during some of the most crucial and terrifying moments...
3) Declare
Author
Language
English
Description
When Professor Andrew Hale receives a message in old wartime code, he must drop the normal life he's built, flee undercover to London, and resume his career as an agent in Her Majesty's Secret Service. It is 1963, and elements from Hale's past are assembling in Beirut -- Kim Philby, once the British counter-espionage chief, who was a Soviet mole all along; and the beautiful Elena Ceniza-Bendiga, variously a soldier in the Spanish Civil War, an agent...
Series
American history by era volume 8
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Presents nearly thirty essays and primary documents on thepolitical, cultural, and social struggles and changes that shaped America in the years of the Cold War, from 1945 to 1992; and includes a detailed chronology and a.
5) The Cold War
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcturus Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Relates the events of the Cold War by focusing on specific events on key dates, such as the first H-bomb test, the Vietnam War, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A fast-paced and richly imagined novel about an American spy, the Cold War's most notorious defector, who gave up his country for the safety--and prison--of Moscow, but never lost his gift for betrayal. In 1949, Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, twelve years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB- approved project almost certain to be...
Author
Language
English
Description
Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a new account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age, with portraits of its major personalities and much fresh insight into its most crucial events. It contains much new information drawn from newly opened Soviet, East European, and Chinese archives. Now, as America once again finds itself in a global confrontation with an implacable ideological enemy, this...
8) The Cold War
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This book explores the history of the Cold War, 1945-1989, the state of conflict and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union expressed through military coalitions, weapons development, espionage, industrial and technological advances, and propaganda.
9) The cold war
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Examines the twentieth-century standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, discussing origins, nuclear strategies, and the breakup of the Soviet Union.
10) Moscow exile
Author
Series
Joe Wilderness novels volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From "quite possibly the best historical novelist we have" (Philadelphia Inquirer), the fourth Joe Wilderness spy thriller, moving from Red Scare-era Washington, DC to a KGB prison near Moscow's Kremlin. In Moscow Exile, John Lawton departs from his usual stomping grounds of England and Germany to jump across the Atlantic to Washington, DC, in the fragile postwar period where the Red Scare is growing noisier every day. Charlotte is a British expatriate...
12) Red winter
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the truth about a potential Soviet defector in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series"--
"1985 -- A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious...
13) Exposure
Author
Language
English
Description
A missing top-secret file poses a terrible dilemma for colleagues Giles Holloway and Simon Callington at the height of the Cold War in London, where Simon's wife, Lily, resolves to protect their family only to be devastatingly exposed.
14) Cold war
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Polish
Description
A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged by their...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This electrifying debut from Jeremy Duns launches a trilogy of Cold War spy thrillers. It's 1969, and a KGB colonel has just entered the British High Commission in Nigeria and asked to defect. For MI6 agent Paul Dark, it's a promising opportunity. But Dark soon finds himself in trouble and on the run.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Oleg Gordievsky was a spy like no other. The product of a KGB family and the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Russian eventually saw the lies and terror of the regime for what they were, a realization that turned him irretrievably toward the West. His KGB career took flight in Copenhagen in 1966 and eventually brought him to the highest post in the KGB's London station--but throughout that time he was secretly working for MI6, the...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
In a reinterpretation of the postwar years, historian Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful nations around the globe--Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman--to rely on traditional power politics despite the catastrophic violence their nations had endured. The decisions of these men, for better and often for worse, had profound consequences for decades to come, influencing relations and conflicts with...
20) Price of Duty
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a top-secret location deep in the Ural Mountains, Russian President Gennadiy Gryzlov has built his nations most dangerous weapon since the atomic bomb-a fearsome tool to gain superiority in Russias long-running battle with the West. From inside Perun Aerie-an intricate network of underground tunnels and chambers that is the heart of the Russian cyber warfare program-he is launching a carefully plotted series of attacks on an unsuspecting U.S. and...