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    • His Life and Times
    • By: William Taubman
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 32 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
    • When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world's two superpowers....

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    • Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts
    • By: Scott Anderson
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean, Scott Anderson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 426 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia—the gripping story of four CIA agents during the early days of the Cold War—and how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to permanently damage its moral standing in the world....

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    • John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
    • By: Douglas Brinkley
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 467 ratings
    • As the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award-winning historian and perennial New York Times best-selling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to the moon....

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    • The First Thirty Years
    • By: Patrick N. Allitt, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Patrick N. Allitt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • The 30 years of contemporary US history following the fall of the Soviet Union tend to get short shrift. Nonetheless, events of today have been profoundly shaped by the past several decades, and one must understand this recent history to understand the world today....

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    • China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
    • By: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
    • Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.

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    • The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die
    • By: Garrett M. Graff
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,253 ratings
    • A fresh window on American history: the eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil, even if the rest of us die....

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    • The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation
    • By: Steve Vogel
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War - and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it....

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    • Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 07-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,629 ratings
    • Who was Kim Philby? Those closest to him—like his fellow MI6 officer and best friend since childhood, Nicholas Elliot, and the CIA’s head of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton—knew him as a loyal confidant and an unshakeable patriot....

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    • The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies
    • By: Howard Blum
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 356 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of Dark Invasion chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence mission....

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    • A True Story of the Cold War
    • By: Giles Whittell
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 833 ratings
    • Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first prisoner exchange of the nuclear age? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that electrifying moment on February 10, 1962....

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    • By: Robert Service
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 21 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • Robert Service's gripping new investigation of the final years of the Cold War opens a window onto the dramatic years that would irrevocably alter the world's geopolitical landscape....

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    • The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
    • By: Jonna Mendez, Antonio J. J. Mendez
    • Narrated by: Wilson Bethel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,667 ratings
    • Antonio Mendez and his future wife, Jonna, were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept files on all foreigners, studied their patterns, tapped their phones....

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    • Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
    • By: Tennent H. Bagley
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 770 ratings
    • From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus....

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    • NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
    • By: Stephen Budiansky
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous "cult of silence" has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades....

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    • The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
    • By: Stephen Walker
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • April 12, 1961. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile - originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead - and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history....

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    • The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960
    • By: James D. Hornfischer
    • Narrated by: Christopher Newton, Sharon Hornfischer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 271 ratings
    • This landmark account of the US Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Hold the Sea combines narrative history with scenes of stirring adventure on—and under—the high seas. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the victorious Navy sends its sailors home....

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    • How the CIA Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains
    • By: J. Michael Waller
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Shocking, illuminating—and filled with exclusive interviews with leading CIA figures themselves—Big Intel recounts the dramatic story of the rise and Cold War heroics of the CIA and the American intelligence apparatus followed by its unfortunate slide into Kafkaesque Deep State dysfunction....

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    • Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink
    • By: William Inboden
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • The Peacemaker reveals how Ronald Reagan and his national security team confronted the Soviets, reduced the nuclear threat, won the Cold War, and supported the spread of freedom around the world.

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    • A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Nearly 30 years after the end of the Cold War, today's leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War....

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