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The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia
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A thrilling account of the Cold War spies and spycraft that changed the course of history, perfect for listeners of Bomb and The Boys Who Challenged Hitler.
The Cold War spanned five decades as America and the USSR engaged in a battle of ideologies with global ramifications. Over the course of the war, with the threat of mutually assured nuclear destruction looming, billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives were devoted to the art and practice of spying, ensuring that the world would never be the same.
Rife with intrigue and filled with fascinating historical figures whose actions shine light on both the past and present, this timely work of narrative nonfiction explores the turbulence of the Cold War through the lens of the men and women who waged it behind closed doors, and helps explain the role secret and clandestine operations have played in America's history and its national security.
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Its code name was “Operation Gold”, a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Book
- De Toni Bowes en 01-11-20
De: Steve Vogel
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish
- The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
- Duración: 19 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,495
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4,479
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lots of facts, offset by too much fiction
- De Steve M en 05-24-19
De: Annie Jacobsen
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The Quiet Americans
- Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts
- De: Scott Anderson
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Scott Anderson
- Duración: 22 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear—to some—that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly formed CIA. Chronicling their fascinating lives, Scott Anderson follows the exploits of four spies. Despite their ambitions, time and again their efforts went awry, thwarted by ham-fisted politicking and ideological rigidity at the highest levels of the government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Tragedy for One
- De Amazon Customer en 09-23-20
De: Scott Anderson
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Russians Among Us
- Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
- De: Gordon Corera
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 853
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 739
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 735
With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should be required reading for every citizen
- De Amazon Customer en 02-27-20
De: Gordon Corera
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A Pretext for War
- 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
- De: James Bamford
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 122
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This book says outright what many have merely hinted at: that President George W. Bush knowingly misused the findings of the erroneous and incompetent U.S. intelligence community to provide a pretext for war with Iraq. The author hones in on the systematic weaknesses of the intelligence agencies that caused them to ignore the crucial signs leading up to the attacks of 9/11.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read before you vote
- De FGP en 09-30-04
De: James Bamford
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The Moscow Rules
- The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
- De: Jonna Mendez, Antonio J. J. Mendez
- Narrado por: Wilson Bethel
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,694
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,467
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,463
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, and even planted listening devices within the US embassy. In short, intelligence work was effectively impossible. The Soviet threat loomed larger than ever. The Moscow Rules tells the story of the intelligence breakthroughs that turned the odds in America's favor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, clean, pro-CIA history
- De Alexander M Leasenby en 02-27-20
De: Jonna Mendez, y otros
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Legacy of Ashes
- The History of the CIA
- De: Tim Weiner
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 21 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,632
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,893
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,876
This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For the last 60 years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders to the American public. It spun its own truth to the nation while reality lay buried in classified archives. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Tim Weiner offers a stunning indictment of the CIA, a deeply flawed organization that has never deserved America's confidence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Flawed but Important
- De Michael en 07-18-08
De: Tim Weiner
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The Compatriots
- The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad
- De: Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
The history of Russian espionage is soaked in blood, from a spontaneous pistol shot that killed a secret policeman in Romania in 1924 to the attempt to poison an exiled KGB colonel in Salisbury, England, in 2017. Russian émigrés have found themselves continually at the center of the mayhem. Russians began leaving the country in big numbers in the late 19th century, fleeing pogroms, tsarist secret police persecution, and the Revolution, then Stalin and the KGB - and creating the third-largest diaspora in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book. Extremely detailed history of the USSR
- De M. Gordon en 03-03-20
De: Andrei Soldatov, y otros
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Twilight Warriors
- The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War
- De: James Kitfield
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 15 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
In Twilight Warriors, award-winning foreign correspondent James Kitfield introduces us to the tight-knit brotherhood that strives to keep the United States safe from the dimly understood threats it now faces. Together these men have broken down the boundaries between their respective agencies to engineer a network-centric way of fighting using a seamless web of intelligence analysts, information networks, FBI forensics experts, and Special Forces units to take the fight to America's enemies as never before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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South African Perspectives
- De Bernard Remacle en 03-22-17
De: James Kitfield
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The Way of the Knife
- The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
- De: Mark Mazzetti
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 444
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 376
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 378
Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Mazzetti examines secret wars over the past decade, tracking key characters from the intelligence and military communities across the world. Among the characters we meet in The Way of the Knife are a young CIA officer dropped into the tribal areas to learn the hard way how the spy games in Pakistan are played; an Air Force test pilot who fired the first drone missile in the Nevada desert; and a chain-smoking Pentagon official who ran an off-the-books spying operation in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent critique of covert operations
- De Keefer en 04-27-13
De: Mark Mazzetti
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American Spy
- Wry Reflections on My Life in the CIA
- De: H. K. Roy
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 178
This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life - and a few close brushes with death. With remarkable sangfroid and a humorist's eye for absurdity, H. K. Roy describes his many strange and risky exploits in his long career with the CIA. Whether he was pursuing Soviet and Cuban spies, running "denied area" operations in Eastern Europe, hunting Bosnian War criminals, or providing actionable intelligence to US government and coalition forces in Iraq, Roy usually found himself at the right place at the right time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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To political
- De Amazon Customer en 11-29-19
De: H. K. Roy
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Wise Gals
- The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
- De: Nathalia Holt
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organization that we now know as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the “wise gals” by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humor and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing untold history
- De Andrea Guzman en 12-15-22
De: Nathalia Holt
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An Impeccable Spy
- Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
- De: Owen Matthews
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 16 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World War, Sorge became a fanatical communist - and the Soviet Union’s most formidable spy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lots of Politics
- De Cynthia en 04-24-20
De: Owen Matthews
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No Shadows in the Desert
- Murder, Espionage, Vengeance, and the Untold Story of the Destruction of ISIS
- De: Samuel M. Katz
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
No Shadows in the Desert reveals the untold story of the behind-the-scenes fight against ISIS - one coordinated by heads of state and ultimately fought in the alleyways and open deserts of the Middle Eastern battlefield by spies and soldiers. Samuel M. Katz draws upon his sources within the global intelligence and counterterrorism community, as well as the international special operations and espionage fraternity, to tell the story of the covert campaign against ISIS by the operatives who ventured deeply and secretly into enemy territory.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Simply Anti- Trump writer
- De Shon Cooke en 07-03-21
De: Samuel M. Katz
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The Black Banners (Declassified)
- How Torture Derailed the War on Terror After 9/11
- De: Ali H. Soufan
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 19 h y 14 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 278
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 252
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 248
Widely heralded on publication as a “must-read” (Military Review) and “important window on America’s battle with al-Qaeda” (Washington Post), Ali Soufan’s revelatory account of the war on terror as seen from its front lines changed the way we understand al-Qaeda and how the United States prosecuted the war — and led to hard questions being asked of our leaders.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent !
- De JJ en 09-21-20
De: Ali H. Soufan
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Enemies
- A History of the FBI
- De: Tim Weiner
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 857
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 739
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 742
We think of the FBI as America’s police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau’s first and foremost mission. Enemies is the story of how presidents have used the FBI as the most formidable intelligence force in American history. This is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book, just not for me
- De a en 11-12-12
De: Tim Weiner
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Manhunt
- The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden - from 9-11 to Abbottabad
- De: Peter L. Bergen
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 517
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 449
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 443
From the author of the New York Times best-selling Holy War, Inc., this is the definitive account of the decade-long manhunt for the world’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden. Al Qaeda expert and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multidimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over the past decade, including the operation that killed him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!
- De Betty en 05-04-12
De: Peter L. Bergen