7 must-read espionage books like Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Calder Walton

Cover of Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Calder Walton

Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By: Calder Walton

4.30

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le…

If you liked the espionage plot in Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Calder Walton , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Our Enemies Will Vanish by Yaroslav Trofimov

1. Our Enemies Will Vanish

By: Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people… read more

Similar categories in Yaroslav Trofimov's Our Enemies Will Vanish book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War by Jim Sciutto

2. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

Similar categories in Jim Sciutto's The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Edmund Conway

3. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

Similar categories in Edmund Conway's Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Cover of Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Calder Walton

4. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By: Calder Walton

4.30

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more

Similar categories in Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • espionage
  • american history
  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy

5. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

Similar categories in Serhii Plokhy's The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

Cover of Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas

6. Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

By: Evan Thomas

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a cru… read more

Similar categories in Evan Thomas's Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

7. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

Similar categories in Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

Cover of The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll

8. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

Similar categories in Steve Coll's The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • espionage
  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid

9. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

By: Stuart A. Reid

4.40

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more

Similar categories in Stuart A. Reid's The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine by David H. Petraeus

10. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

By: David H. Petraeus

4.06

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more

Similar categories in David H. Petraeus's Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

Cover of Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East by Uri Kaufman

11. Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East

By: Uri Kaufman

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"Pacy and enthralling." ― Financial Times "Tells the story brilliantly." ―Senator Joseph I. Lieber… read more

Similar categories in Uri Kaufman's Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

12. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

Similar categories in David E. Sanger's New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy W. Ryback

13. Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power

By: Timothy W. Ryback

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library , a dramatic recounting of th… read more

Similar categories in Timothy W. Ryback's Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World by Bethany Allen

14. Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

By: Bethany Allen

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the most acclaimed journalists on contemporary China lays bare the country's two decade ques… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Allen's Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • espionage
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence by Amy B. Zegart

15. Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

By: Amy B. Zegart

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating and authoritative account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s lea… read more

Similar categories in Amy B. Zegart's Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • espionage
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy by Michael G. Vickers

16. By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy

By: Michael G. Vickers

4.17

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Vickers's By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • espionage
  • american history
  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

17. Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

By: Thomas Rid

4.15

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deceptio… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Rid's Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence by James M. Olson

18. To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence

By: James M. Olson

3.91

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

How the US is losing the counterintelligence war and what the country should do to better protect o… read more

Similar categories in James M. Olson's To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • espionage
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy by Craig Whitlock

19. 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

Similar categories in Craig Whitlock's Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century by Dmitri Alperovitch

20. World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

By: Dmitri Alperovitch

4.34

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a f… read more

Similar categories in Dmitri Alperovitch's World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

21. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

17 must-read audiobook books like Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Calder Walton

Transform Your Habits

Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

Evan Thomas

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

View all the books

21 Best audiobook books like The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

4.67

Transform Your Habits

Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Christopher Clark

4.18

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.