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The book received mostly positive reviews. [1] [2] Lawrence D. Freedman, writing for Foreign Affairs, described it as a "must-read" and praised it for "[describing] in such detail what it meant to run American agents in Cold War–era Moscow". [3]
Pages in category "Cold War spy novels" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. The 13th Spy; A.
Cold War espionage has been fictionally depicted in works such as the James Bond and Matt Helm books and movies. The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II led by the United States (and the Western Bloc ) and the Soviet Union (and the Eastern Bloc ).
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré.It depicts Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer.
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (ISBN 0-06-103004-X) by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence Drew, published in 1998 by PublicAffairs, is a non-fiction book about U.S. Navy submarine operations during the Cold War.
This inability to know for certain about what is going on in the "secret world" of intelligence-gathering affected both non-fiction and fiction books about espionage. The Cold War and the struggle between Soviet intelligence-known as the KGB from 1954 onward-vs. the CIA and MI6 made the subject of espionage a popular one for novelists to write ...
The Looking Glass War is a 1965 spy novel by John le Carré.Written in response to the positive public reaction to his previous novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, the book explores the unglamorous nature of espionage and the danger of nostalgia.
Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall (Yale University Press; 2011) 512 pages; Mastny, Vojtech. Russia's Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, Warfare, and the Politics of Communism, 1941–1945 (1979) Mastny, Vojtech. The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years (1998) online edition from ACLS E-Books ...