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[2018]
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"In this sweeping, deeply researched book, Paul Thomas Chamberlin boldly argues that the Cold War, long viewed as a mostly peaceful, if tense, diplomatic standoff between democracy and communism, fostered a series of deadly conflicts that killed millions on battlegrounds across the postcolonial world. For half a century, as an uneasy accord hung over Europe, ferocious proxy wars raged in the Cold War's killing fields, resulting in more than fourteen...
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"When Jim Cronley hears he's just won the Legion of Merit, he figures there's another shoe to drop, and it's a big one: he's out as Chief, DCI-Europe. His new assignments, however, couldn't be bigger: to protect the U.S. chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials from a rumored Soviet NKGB kidnapping, and to hunt down and dismantle the infamous Odessa, an organization dedicated to helping Nazi war criminals escape to South America. It doesn't take long...
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From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues...
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Tatiana and Alexander novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Reunited in America, they now have a son and a strong love. But with the Cold War rising, dark forces at work in their adopted country threaten their lives, their family, and their hard-worn peace.
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The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez--her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash of Cuban American politics...
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2012.
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"In 1945 Istanbul, Allied veteran Leon Bauer is running spy missions under the cover of a U.S. tobacco-importing business. With the war over, U in 1ations are closing up shop in the neutral capital, but Leon has one last big job: to take possession of a Romanian defector in possession of important Russian secrets and get him flown to safety. The rub is the defector, Alexei, was involved in a heinous massacre of Jews four years earlier."--Kirkus Reviews....
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January 1946: Two WACs leave an officers' club in Munich, and four Soviet NKGB agents kidnap them at knifepoint in the parking lot and shove them in the back of an ambulance. That is the agents' first mistake, and their last. One of the WACs, a blond woman improbably named Claudette Colbert, works for the new Directorate of Central Intelligence, and three of the men end up dead and the fourth wounded. The "incident," however, will send shock waves...
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Lekalei zuo pin volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
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中文(繁體)
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Traditional Chinese edition of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
「他的毀滅,正是他的成就。」 • 諜報小說經典巨作,暢銷半世紀,全球銷售大破三千五百萬冊! • 日本早川文庫讀者票選 間諜小說第一名。 •《出版人週刊》Publishers Weekly Top 15 Spy Novels 最佳間諜小說第一名。 • 獲選《TIMES》All Time 100 Greatest Novels《時代》雜誌百大英文小說。...
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The first half of the twentieth century was a murderous period as political ideologies grew into wars that killed tens of millions of people. Fear of Communism sparked a hysteria in the United States that led to two red scares and the rise and fall of McCarthyism. This book looks at the events that created credible concerns about Communism and those that allowed baseless allegations to ruin the lives of innocent Americans. A timeline plots the history...
33) Double take
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[2010]
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English
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A documentary/fiction hybrid that combines archival footage with cryptic allusions to an imaginary murder plot involving Alfred Hitchcock and his double to create a portrait of American media run amok during the Cold War.
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George Mueller novels volume 1
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2016.
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English
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As the Cold War heats up, the CIA is reeling from a double agent within their midst. Someone is selling secrets to the Soviets, compromising missions around the globe. Undercover agents have been assassinated, and anti-Communist plots are being cut short in ruthlessly efficient fashion. The traitor, whose code name is Protocol, can compromise the entire agency. George Mueller seems to be the perfect man to help find the mole. The Director trusts him....
36) Deep roots
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Innsmouth legacy volume 2
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2018.
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"Aphra Marsh, descendant of the People of the Water, has survived Deep One internment camps and made a grudging peace with the government that destroyed her home and exterminated her people on land. Deep Roots continues Aphra's journey to rebuild her life and family on land, as she tracks down long-lost relatives. She must repopulate Innsmouth or risk seeing it torn down by greedy developers, but as she searches she discovers that people have been...
37) The bitter past
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[2023]
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"Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. Now he's back home, doing the same lawman's job his father once did, before his father started to develop dementia. All is relatively quiet in this corner of the world, until an old, retired FBI agent is found killed. He was brutally tortured before he...
38) Killing Kennedy
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2014
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English
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"As global Cold War tensions mount and organized crime escalates in the U.S
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Lekalei zuo pin volume 25
Pub. Date
2020.
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中文(繁體)
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Traditional Chinese edition of A Legacy of Spies
他抬起頭。 我沒有重見故人的急切心情,只意識到即將到來的清算。 你真的是利馬斯的兒子? 何不立刻直接衝著我來,和我正面交鋒? 暢銷全球三千五百萬冊、諜報經典巨作《冷戰諜魂》之故事終章, 勒卡雷最新作品,諜報小說史上最深沉的角色——喬治・史邁利的復歸登場。 槍聲、煙硝散去後,柏林圍牆旁的那一夜,故事仍未結束……...
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