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    • The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 03-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 461 ratings
    • The author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb lays bare the secret heart of the Cold War....

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    • The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
    • By: David E. Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,520 ratings
    • The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today....

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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 28 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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    • 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 2,621 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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    • American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World
    • By: Robert M. Gates
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 237 ratings
    • From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed number one best-selling memoir, Duty, a candid, sweeping examination of power, and how it has been exercised, for good and bad, by American presidents in the post-Cold War world....

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    • Six Friends and the World They Made
    • By: Evan Thomas, Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Reese
    • Length: 33 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 383 ratings
    • Six close friends shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II....

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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 1,244 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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    • 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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    • By: Don DeLillo
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 31 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 689 ratings
    • Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert....

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    • Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age. The past 20 years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically....

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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 72 ratings
    • A masterful account of 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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    • The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
    • By: Stuart A. Reid
    • Narrated by: Michael Boatman
    • Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers....

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    • The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
    • By: Helena Merriman
    • Narrated by: Helena Merriman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 717 ratings
    • In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were dozens of men, women, and children - all willing to risk everything to escape....

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    • The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
    • By: Vladimir Zubok
    • Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
    • Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
    • Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok....

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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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    • Dawn of the Cold War
    • By: Benn Steil
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan - told with verve, insight, and resonance for today....

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    • The Untold Truth About the Most Terrifying Incident in Submarine Naval History and How Putin Used the Tragedy to Ignite a New Cold War
    • By: W. Craig Reed
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • A decade after the Cold War, a violent explosion sent the Russian submarine Kursk to the bottom of the Barents Sea....

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    • John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War
    • By: Jeff Shesol
    • Narrated by: Jim Frangione
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Mercury Rising recreates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon....

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    • Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America after the End of the Cold War
    • By: Pete Earley
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 345 ratings
    • Spymaster, defector, double agent....Here is the remarkable true story of the man who ran Russia's post-cold-war spy program in America....

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