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The Venona Secrets by Herbert Romerstein; Eric Breindel The Venona Secrets presents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War. In 1995, secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted finally became available to American historians. Now, after spending more than five years researching all the available evidence, espionage experts Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel reveal the full, shocking story of the days when Soviet spies ran their fingers through America's atomic-age secrets. Included in The Venona Secrets are the details of the spying activities that reached from Harry Hopkins in Franklin Roosevelt s White House to Alger Hiss in the State Department to Harry Dexter White in the Treasury. More than that, The Venona Secrets exposes:  * Information that links Albert Einstein to Soviet intelligence and conclusive evidence showing that J. Robert Oppenheimer gave Moscow our atomic secrets. * How Soviet espionage reached its height when the United States and the Soviet Union were supposedly allies in World War II. * The previously unsuspected vast network of Soviet spies in America. * How the Venona documents confirm the controversial revelations made in the 1940s by former Soviet agents Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. * The role of the American Communist Party in supporting and directing Soviet agents. * How Stalin s paranoia had him target Jews (code-named Rats ) and Trotskyites even after Trotsky's death. * How the Soviets penetrated America's own intelligence services.   The Venona Secrets is a masterful compendium of spy versus spy that puts the Venona transcripts in context with secret FBI reports, congressional investigations, and documents recently uncovered in the former Soviet archives.  Romerstein and Breindel cast a spotlight on one of the most shadowy episodes in recent American history - a past when by our very own government officials, whether wittingly or unwittingly, shielded treason infected Washington and Soviet agents.

The Cold War by Michael G. Kort Covers the long ideological conflict between the communist world and the Western democracies from the end of World War II to the collapse of communism in Europe in 1990.

The Fifty Years War by Richard Crockatt This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Fifty Years' war and the relationship that dominated world politics in the second half of the twentieth century. For fifty years relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were deciding factors in international affairs. Available for the first time in paperback, Richard Crockatt's acclaimed book is an examination of this relationship in its global context. It breaks new ground in seeking a synthesis of historical narrative and analysis of the global structures within which superpower relations developed. Attention is given to economic as well as political and military factors.

The End of the Cold War by Christine Hatt

Life an Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet Norfolk, 1962. It's a hot summer during the Cold War. Clem, a working-class boy from a council estate and Frankie, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, are conducting a furtive and high-risk relationship. Meanwhile, the world's superpowers are moving towards nuclear confrontation. With the Cuban Missile Crisis looming , it seems that time is running out for Frankie and Clem. There are things they need to do before the world explodes.

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world unlike any previously experienced in suspense fiction. With unsurpassed knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carre brings to light the shadowy dealings of international espionage in the tale of a British agent who longs to end his career but undertakes one final, bone-chilling assignment. When the last agent under his command is killed and Alec Leamas is called back to London, he hopes to come in from the cold for good. His spymaster, Control, however, has other plans. Determined to bring down the head of East German Intelligence and topple his organization, Control once more sends Leamas into the fray -- this time to play the part of the dishonored spy and lure the enemy to his ultimate defeat.

A Great Escape by Felice Arena Summary: Set in cold war Germany, Peter's Wings is a story of true-life heroism and the unbreakable bonds of family, by the acclaimed author of Fearless Frederic and The Boy and the Spy. Sometimes the only option is to fly. When Peter's family leaves for a day trip over the border, Peter stays behind. So when the borders close and the government builds a wall, he's trapped. Everyone tells him there's no escape and he might never see his family again. Peter has a plan . . . but will he survive it?.