The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive & the Secret History of the KGB
By: None , Vasili Mitrokhin , Christopher Andrew
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
The Sword and the Shieldis based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent time…
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1. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
By: Tim Weiner
3.94
Format: 514 pages, Hardcover
For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more
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"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
2. Enemies: A History of the FBI
By: Tim Weiner
3.93
Format: 537 pages, Hardcover
Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from an author… read more
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"From 1966 to 1976 ... The primary cause in [the] decline in FBI counterespionage and counterintelligence cases was the ceaseless demand by Presidents Johnson and Nixon to focus on the political warfa…"-Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI
3. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
By: Rick Atkinson
4.29
Format: 681 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the first volume of his monumental tri… read more
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"In battle, topography is fate."-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
"Troops caught nibbling their emergency D- ration chocolate bars were dubbed Chocolate Soldiers and punished by forfeiting two meals. This was a happy penance. The galleys served so much fatty mutton …"-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
4. From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History (Great Courses, #8320)
By: Kenneth J. Hammond
4.49
Format: None pages,
In a world growing increasingly smaller, China still seems a faraway and exotic land, with secrets … read more
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5. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
By: David Talbot
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more
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6. One Soldier's War in Chechnya
By: Nick Allen , Arkady Babchenko , Аркадий Бабченко
4.07
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A vivid, autobiographical account of what life was like for a young soldier in Russia's Chechen war… read more
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7. The Russian Revolution
By: Richard Pipes , Peter Dimock , Bernhard H. Wagner
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mr. Pipes writes trenchantly, and at times superbly....No single volume known to me even begins to … read more
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8. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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9. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
By: Rick Atkinson
4.67
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph… read more
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10. Lafayette
By: Harlow Giles Unger
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Acclaim for Lafayette "I found Mr. Unger's book exceptionally well done. It's an admirable account … read more
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11. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
By: Toby Wilkinson
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconog… read more
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12. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive & the Secret History of the KGB
By: None , Vasili Mitrokhin , Christopher Andrew
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
The Sword and the Shieldis based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent time… read more
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13. Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
By: None , None
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without questi… read more
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14. In the First Circle
By: None , Harry Willets
3.88
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
The First Circle of Dante's Hell -- where the souls of the pre-Christian philosophers are doomed to… read more
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15. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
By: Rick Atkinson
4.90
Format: None pages,
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERIn the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in … read more
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16. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
By: Thomas Asbridge
4.22
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the H… read more
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"The Lionheart had arrived."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"Zangi was now sixty-two and still in remarkably rude health."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"The first Latin up a ladder was Aubery Clements, marshal of France, one of Philip’s leading knights. It was said later among the Christians’ forces that, before climbing the breach, Aubery had called…"-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
17. 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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18. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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19. 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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20. 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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"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
21. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
By: Rick Atkinson
4.43
Format: 776 pages, Hardcover
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months … read more
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