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The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff
Author: Phillips Payson O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief...
The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat
Author: Eric Haseltine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow--before more American assets...
Maoism: A Global History
Author: Julia Lovell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 Winner of the 2019 Cundill History Prize "Revelatory and instructive . . . [a] beautifully written and accessible book" -The Times...
Pollock Confidential: A Graphic Novel
Author: Onofrio Catacchio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 New York, 1948: The art world is ablaze with the pioneering brilliance of Jackson Pollock's 'action painting'. Despite this seismic creative...
Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's campaign for Peace
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Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956--a...
A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the Cia's Secret War
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Author: Monte Reel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and...
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
Author: David E. Hoffman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary...
Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal
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Author: Michael Mewshaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A generous, entertaining, intimate look at Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know Detached and ironic;...
The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin
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Author: Douglas Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster...
The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror
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Author: Stephen Grey (Broadleaf Capital International Australia) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The old world of spying-dead-letter boxes, microfilm cameras, an enemy reporting to the Moscow Center, and a...
The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy
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Author: Mark Urban Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine...
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton...
Global Art and the Cold War
Author: John J. Curley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In this readable and highly original book, John J. Curley presents the first synthetic account of global art during the...
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians. On a warm...
Launch Code
Author: Michael Ridpath (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Hugely enjoyable and thought-provoking, Launch Code brings to mind the classic thrillers of Alister Maclean and Jack Higgins....
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake
Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Those people who were betrayed were not innocent people. They were no better nor worse than I am. It's all part...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War...
The Cold War: A World History
Author: Odd Arne Westad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 A major history of the conflict that shaped every aspect of our world As Germany and then Japan...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was...
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
Author: Stephen Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES 'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW 9.07 a.m., April...
Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language
Author: Esther Schor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A rich and passionate biography of a language and the dream of world harmony it sought to realize In 1887, Ludwig...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
Author: Mark B. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for...
Tunnel 29: Love, Espionage and Betrayal: the True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
Author: Helena Merriman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Economist Book of the Year 2021 'A captivating retelling of one of the most astonishing episodes in East Germany's grim history.'...
The Fourth Man: The Hunt for the KGB's CIA Mole and Why the US Overlooked Putin
Author: Robert Baer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 *** 'Reads like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' -James Risen, The Intercept 'A compelling account of the ongoing search for the Fourth...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not...
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
Author: Stephen Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES 'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW 9.07...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War...
Deadly Gambits: The Reagan Administration And The Stalemate In Nuclear Arms Control
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description...