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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre
4.52 average rating, · 94k ratings
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder
4.44 average rating, · 111.6k ratings
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Svetlana Alexievich
4.40 average rating, · 66.6k ratings
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
4.36 average rating, · 69k ratings
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War's Unwomanly Face
Svetlana Alexievich
4.51 average rating, · 40.6k ratings
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich
4.46 average rating, · 22.9k ratings
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Lost Roses
Martha Hall Kelly
4.04 average rating, · 61.9k ratings
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Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
Bill Browder
4.34 average rating, · 27.9k ratings
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Robert K. Massie
4.23 average rating, · 30.2k ratings
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
4.39 average rating, · 20.5k ratings
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Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny
4.51 average rating, · 16.8k ratings
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
Robert K. Massie
4.16 average rating, · 23.3k ratings
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Blowout
Rachel Maddow
4.34 average rating, · 16.1k ratings
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant
4.06 average rating, · 22.2k ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.35 average rating, · 14.6k ratings
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Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
Ben Macintyre
4.16 average rating, · 18.8k ratings
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
David E. Hoffman
4.24 average rating, · 16.4k ratings
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Gulag: A History
Anne Applebaum
4.29 average rating, · 14.2k ratings
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Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
William Craig
4.24 average rating, · 14.6k ratings
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Limonov
Emmanuel Carrère
4.11 average rating, · 17k ratings
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Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
Svetlana Alexievich
4.30 average rating, · 12.6k ratings
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
Svetlana Alexievich
4.50 average rating, · 10.1k ratings
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War
Bob Woodward
4.22 average rating, · 13.8k ratings
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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Timothy Snyder
4.37 average rating, · 11.2k ratings
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