Best Cold War Novels - April 2024

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War.“The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both crimi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101904194
• ASIN: 1101904194
• ISBN: 1101904194
• Manufacturer: Crown

Summer of '69

The #1 New York Times Bestseller Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unabl... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07J564ZHD
• ASIN: B07J564ZHD
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

The Cold War: A New History

The “dean of Cold War historians” (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why—from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in its drama, The Cold War stands as... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143038273
• ASIN: 0143038273
• ISBN: 0143038273
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

• ASIN: B0756DZ4C1
• ASIN: B0756DZ4C1
• Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year   It was the height of the Cold War, and a dangerous time to be stationed in the Soviet Union. One evening, while the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station was filling his gas tank, a stranger approached and dropped a note into the car. The chief, suspicious of a KGB trap, ignored the overture. But the man had made up his mind. His attempts to establish contact with the CIA would be rebuffed four times before he thrust upon them an envelope whose contents would stun U.S. intelligence. In the years that followed, that man, Adolf Tolkachev, became one of... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345805976
• ASIN: 0345805976
• ISBN: 0345805976
• Brand: Anchor Books
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Cold Lake: An Electrifying Mystery Thriller

The truth emerges, one piece at a time. David Wolf and his deputies are back, facing the most disturbing case of their lives—one Wolf’s own father could not solve years ago. And someone will want it kept that way.A fisherman reels in a plastic bag containing a severed human head from the depths of Cold Lake, Colorado. When Sheriff David Wolf and his deputies scramble to the scene, they quickly find more surprises lurk below. Their grim discoveries reopen a cold case Wolf’s father worked twenty-two years ago, and Wolf must try to succeed where his father failed before him. Wolf has the a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00PTR6YUY
• ASIN: B00PTR6YUY
• Manufacturer: Cross Atlantic Publishing

Presidents of War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deat... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307409600
• ASIN: 0307409600
• ISBN: 9780307409607
• Brand: Crown
• Manufacturer: Crown

The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery (Walt Longmire Mysteries Book 1)

• ASIN: B0023SDPS6
• ASIN: B0023SDPS6
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Varina: A Novel

• ASIN: 0062405985
• ASIN: 0062405985
• ISBN: 0062405985
• Manufacturer: Ecco

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government

In Cold War America, Senator Joseph McCarthy enjoyed tremendous support in the fight against what he called atheistic communism. But that support stemmed less from his wild charges about communists than his more substantiated charges that "sex perverts" had infiltrated government agencies. Although now remembered as an attack on suspected disloyalty, McCarthyism introduced "moral values" into the American political arsenal. Warning of a spreading homosexual menace, McCarthy and his Republican allies learned how to win votes.Winner of three book awards, The Lavender Scare masterfully traces the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0226401901
• UPC: 884182311730
• ASIN: 0226401901
• ISBN: 0226401901
• Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (An Hbj Modern Classic)

• ASIN: B003K16PUU
• ASIN: B003K16PUU
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Vietnam War (Graphic Modern History: Cold War Conflicts)

As the Soviet Union attempted to expand the influence of communism around the world, the United States responded with a policy called "containment" to prevent it. The war in Vietnam was a Cold War conflict that saw North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, invade South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries. Featured stories include:

• ASIN: 0778712400
• ASIN: 0778712400
• ISBN: 0778712400
• Manufacturer: Crabtree Publishing Company

Breach (Cold War Magic novel, A)

The first novel in a new Cold War fantasy series, where the Berlin Wall is made entirely of magic. When a breach unexpectedly appears in the wall, spies from both sides swarm to the city as World War III threatens to spark.AFTER THE WAR, THE WALL BROUGHT AN UNEASY PEACE.When Soviet magicians conjured an arcane wall to blockade occupied Berlin, the world was outraged but let it stand for the sake of peace. Now, after ten years of fighting with spies instead of spells, the CIA has discovered the unthinkable...THE WALL IS FAILING.While refugees and soldiers mass along the border, operatives from ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451491033
• ASIN: 0451491033
• ISBN: 0451491033
• Manufacturer: Ace

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

• ASIN: B00261OOXA
• ASIN: B00261OOXA
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Amongst My Enemies: A Cold War Spy vs Spy Action Thriller

Inside a rusting German U-Boat are millions in gold bars, stolen art, and a secret that could tear NATO apart.The KGB, the CIA, Nazi SS hitmen, even the Israeli Mossad – everyone is willing to kill for it, but only former US Airman Mike Randall knows the truth in this Cold War spy versus spy thriller. After his B-17 crashes in East Prussia in the winter of 1945, Randall finds himself in a Nazi forced labor battalion in Konigsberg on the frozen Baltic coast, surrounded by the Red Army. Also in the old port is Kapitan Eric Bruckner, one of Germany’s last surviving U-Boats, and SS Major Heinz... [Read More]

• ASIN: B006LAOIWY
• ASIN: B006LAOIWY
• Manufacturer: William F Brown

Best Served Cold

Duke Orso imagines that he can become king by ending the civil wars that have devastated Styria, but he errs by trying to kill his overly popular general, mercenary Monza Murcatto. Recovering from her massive

• UPC: 17761900
• Rating: 4.182

Operation Ivy Bells : A Novel of the Cold War

Winning the Cold War is in the balance... A super-secret, off-the-books spy organization; a security-clearance starting at Top Secret and going up from there; an attack by giant squid during a thousand-foot dive while breathing

• UPC: 53388591
• Rating: 5.0

Cold War - eBook

Dropped on a frozen planet under suspicious circumstances, a group of marines struggles to discover the true objective of their mission. "Cold War" is set in the same universe as Adam Christopher's novel The Burning

• UPC: 702071355
• Rating: 4.0

The Cold War Swap - eBook

At the height of the Cold War, two Americans are runnng a bar in the West German capital, called Mac's place. One of the pair, Michael Padillo, isn't around a lot; he keeps disappearing on

• UPC: 362567806
• Rating: 3.0

Cold War : Power Plays 05

In Antarctica, Roger Gordian's UpLink Technologies' research facility tests robotic landing craft for use on Mars, but testing is disrupted when one of the rovers disappears--along with the repair team sent out after it. Fear

• UPC: 25243691
• Rating: 3.5

War and Peace (Complete Version, Best Navigation, Active TOC) - eBook

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha,

• UPC: 613145885
• Rating: 4.203

Basic Law : A Mystery of Cold War Europe

"A MysteriousPress.com

• UPC: 42413911
• Rating: 4.0

Cold War - eBook

Unspoiled. Uninhabited. Under attack…On the wind-swept, ice-covered continent of Antarctica, Roger Gordian’s UpLink Technologies has established a scientific research facility called Cold Corners. But its testing of potential robotic landing craft for use on Mars

• UPC: 233672061
• Rating: 3.5

Redeye Fulda Cold : A Rick Fontain Novel

Redeye Fulda Cold by Bill Fortin is a different type of war novel. This piece of history is set in 1969 West Germany. The reality of what happened in the Cold War on the border

• UPC: 53337530
• Rating: 3.0

The Cold War Swap

At the height of the Cold War, two Americans are runnng a bar in the West German capital, called Mac's place. One of the pair, Michael Padillo, isn't around a lot; he keeps disappearing on

• UPC: 25244860
• Rating: 3.0

THE COLD WAR SWAP ~ PERENNINAL 1986 ROSS THOMAS (BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL AWARD)

• UPC: 153685568643
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 3 USD