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Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour

By: Cold/Cherny, Andrei

Price: $6.50

Publisher: June 2010

Seller ID: 459355

ISBN: 0399154965

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The masterfully told story of the unlikely men who came together to make the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history.
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, Andrei Cherny tells a remarkable story with profound implications for the world today. In the tradition of the best narrative storytellers, he brings together newly unclassified documents, unpublished letters and diaries, and fresh primary interviews to tell the story of the ill-assorted group of castoffs and second-stringers who not only saved millions of desperate people fro...
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Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story

By: Devine, Jack,Loeb, Vernon

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books: June 2014

Seller ID: 468509

ISBN: 0374130329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"A sophisticated, deeply informed account of real life in the real CIA that adds immeasurably to the public understanding of the espionage culture--the good and the bad." --Bob Woodward

Jack Devine ran Charlie Wilson's War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the Cold War, and it was Devine who put the brand-new Stinger missile into the hands of the mujahideen during their war with the Soviets, paving the way to a decisive victory against the Russians. He also pushed the CIA's effort to run down the narcotics trafficker Pablo Escobar in Colombia. He tried to warn the di...
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

By: Dobbs, Michael

Price: $7.25

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: June 2008

Seller ID: 459211

ISBN: 1400043581

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran "Washington Post" reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour chronicle of those near-fatal days, Dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that illustrate how close we came to Armageddon.
Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan ...
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Georgetown Set, The: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington

By: Herken, Gregg

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 459061

ISBN: 030745634X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the years after World War II, Georgetown's leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors who helped shape American strategy. This coterie of affluent, well-educated, and connected civilians guided the country, for better and worse, from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Watergate, and Vietnam. The Georgetown set included Phil and Kay Graham, husband-and-wife publishers of The Washington Post; Joe and Stewart Alsop, odd-couple brothers who were among the country's premier political pundits; Frank Wisner, a driven, manic-depressive lawyer in charge of CIA covert op...
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Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

By: Hoffman, David E.

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 457663

ISBN: 0345805976

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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 Tolkach...
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Spy Among Friends, A: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By: Macintyre, Ben

Price: $7.50

Publisher: May 2016

Seller ID: 473917

ISBN: 0804136637

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century's greatest spy story.

Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War--while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby's best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence ...
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Spy Among Friends, A: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By: MacIntyre, Ben

Price: $6.00

Publisher: May 2016

Seller ID: 479394

ISBN: 0804136653

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century's greatest spy story.

The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

By: Melton, H. Keith

Price: $7.00

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: November 2010

Seller ID: 465446

ISBN: 0061725900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Once a top-secret training manual for CIA field agents in the early Cold War Era of the 1950s, The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception is now available to the general public. An amazing historical artifact, this eye-opening handbook offered step-by-step instructions to covert intelligence operatives in all manner of sleight of hand and trickery designed to thwart the Communist enemy. Part of the Company's infamous MK-ULTRA--a secret mind-control and chemical interrogation research program--this legendary document, the brainchild of John Mulholland, then America's mo...
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Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed (Second Edition)

By: Sagan, Scott

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 485830

ISBN: 0393977471

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Kenneth Waltz, Dean of Realist Theory in international relations at Columbia University, expands on his argument that "more may be better," contending that new nuclear states will use their acquired nuclear capabilities to deter threats and preserve peace. Scott Sagan, the leading proponent of organizational theories in international politics, continues to make the counterpoint that "more will be worse": novice nuclear states lack adequate organizational controls over their new weapons, resulting in a higher risk of either deliberate of accidental nuclear war. Treating issues from the long pea...
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The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

By: Westad, Odd

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: October 2011

Seller ID: 465411

ISBN: 052170314X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we live in today--especially international politics, economics, and military affairs. This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the 20th century created the foundations for most of today's key international conflicts, including the "war on terror." Odd Arne Westad examines the origins and course of Third World revolutions and the ideologies that drove the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. towards interventionism. He focuses on how these interventions gave rise to resentments and resistance th...
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