The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts
By: Scott Anderson
4.14
Format: 562 pages, Hardcover
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1. Eastern Approaches
By: Fitzroy Maclean
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
70th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag Montefi… read more
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- biography
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"War it has been said, is diplomacy continued by other means."-Fitzroy Maclean, Eastern Approaches
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2. The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From one of the foremost historians of the former Soviet Union, a nonfiction spy thriller about a K… read more
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3. The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
By: David E. Hoffman
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Handcomes the riveting story of a sp… read more
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4. Villa America
By: Liza Klaussmann
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling novel set in the Cap D'Antibes based on the real-life inspirations for Fitzgerald's Tend… read more
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5. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomen… read more
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- politics
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6. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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7. Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
4.10
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence an… read more
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8. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
By: David McCullough
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership … read more
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9. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more
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10. The Peacock and the Sparrow
By: I.S. Berry
3.81
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NPR BEST B… read more
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"Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"Nobody in espionage could justify sympathy. Right and wrong existed on paper, but in reality all that existed were the amorphous masses of in-between."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you…"-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
11. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- american history
- history
- historical
- politics
- war
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
12. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
By: Ben Macintyre
4.16
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small … read more
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- espionage
- biography
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- historical
- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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- biography
- history
- historical
- military fiction
- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
By: Steve Coll
4.21
Format: 779 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book A… read more
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- espionage
- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
By: Ronen Bergman
4.40
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more
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- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
17. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
By: Greg Grandin
4.29
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, … read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"Taking Texas, Adams feared, would lock in the worldview that Jackson represented. The country was already fighting what Adams considered a perpetual war on Native Americans, a crusade that Jacksonian…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"In other words, the United States won independence from Great Britain in a revolutionary war that was, among other reasons, fought to deny Great Britain the right to establish a western border; then,…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banne…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
18. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
19. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
By: Daniel de Visé
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more
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- biography
- history
- audiobook
20. The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
By: William J. Burns
4.27
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From America's "secret diplomatic weapon" (The Atlantic), comes a memoir of service for five Presid… read more
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- biography
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- politics
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21. King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — An American Tragedy
By: Michael Dobbs
4.25
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic la… read more
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- audiobook
22. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- american history
- history
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- audiobook
23. The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts
By: Scott Anderson
4.14
Format: 562 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Col… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Agency: a history of the CIA
By: Hugh Wilford
3.73
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Since the eve of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency has been tasked by the U.S. governme… read more
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- audiobook
25. The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
By: James Risen
4.13
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Witnesses were mysteriously murdered. The FBI, NSA, CIA, and even the IRS were on the warpath. It w… read more
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- american history
- biography
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- politics
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26. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
By: Craig Whitlock
4.39
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more
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"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
27. Die Around Sundown (Inspector Henri Lefort, #1)
By: Mark Pryor
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Mark Pryor's Die Around Sundown is the first entry in a mystery series set in Paris during World Wa… read more
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28. The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia
By: Robert B. Baer
3.69
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA and the… read more
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29. The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future
By: Chris Whipple
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look… read more
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- audiobook
30. MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang
By: Steven Dudley
3.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The MS-13 was born from war. In the 1980s, El Salvador was enmeshed in a bloody civil conflict. To … read more
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- audiobook
31. The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family
By: Olivia Williams
3.61
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed bir… read more
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