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Maurice Frank
Writing on the Wall
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Kevin Ruane
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Writer
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Richard Greene
The Cuban Connection
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Christopher Andrew
The Spy Who Loved Himself
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
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Tom Fleming
Match of the Century
White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard
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Godfrey Hodgson
The Hour is Late
The Nuclear Delusion
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Christopher Coker
Peace Offering
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
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Margot Light
Apocalypse Averted
Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation
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Christopher Andrew
The Big Chill
The Cold War: A World History
By Odd Arne Westad
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John Dugdale
How Two Great Americans See One Garbage Dump
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Christopher Andrew
Spies Who Came in from the Cold
The Man with the Poison Gun
By Serhii Plokhy
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Alan Judd
Secrets & Lies
Spymaster: The Life of Britain’s Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield
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Bernard Crick
Political Memoirs
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Paul Wilkinson, Anthony Storr
The Evil that Men do…
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By John Marks
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Christopher Andrew
Whispers in Downing Street
The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers
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Jonathan Haslam
A Foolish Gesture to Boys in Short Trousers
‘One Hell of a Gamble’: Khrushchev, Castro, Kennedy, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958–1964
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Christopher Hitchens
Last, Best Hope
The Making of the Second Cold War
By Fred Halliday
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Christopher Andrew
Intelligence Tests
The End of the Cold War 1985–1991
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Christopher Hitchens
Three Theories
Breaking with Moscow
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Gerald Frost
Portrait of a Cold War Warrior as an Artist
The Other Brian Croziers
By Brian Croziers
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