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21) Edge of eternity
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 3
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East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
24) Red winter
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Series
Description
1985 -- A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer -- invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. It's an offer they can't pass up... if it's genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly stumble...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military. It accounts for over 46% of total world arms spending. Before World War II it spent almost nothing on defense and hardly anyone paid any income taxes. You can't have big wars without big government. Such big expenditures are now threatening to harm the national economy....
26) Skywatchers
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, a group of high school students in 1952 Monterey, California, are watching the skies for Russian planes when something very mysterious draws them together.
27) Fail safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 1011
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Description
The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
29) Atomic blonde
Pub. Date
2017
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Description
The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.
30) The interim
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C. is a wretched grump, an anguished patron of bars, brothels, and train stations. He is also an acclaimed East German writer. Dogged by writer’s block, remorse, and national guilt in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, he leaves the monochromatic existence of the GDR for the neon excess of the West. There at least the novelty of his origins grant him easy money and minor celebrity, if also a deflating sense of complacency. With his visa...
Author
Series
Joe Wilderness novels volume 1
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
418 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1963, freelance private investigator Joe Wilderness, a former MI6 agent and black market con artist, agrees to one last Berlin scam, which involves smuggling people, and brings his World War II gang of accomplices together once again.
32) Octopussy
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A circus clown is murdered in the shadows of the Berlin Wall, a heavily guarded priceless Soviet art treasure turns up at a London auction, a tycoon arrives at conferences on a love barge, served by an army of scantily-clad lethal lovelies -- a mixture of mystery and action that only James Bond can unravel.
33) Cold War
Series
Criterion collection volume 1005
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Description
Set in the 1950s, an older pianist with plans to defect falls in love with a talented young singer while he is on a state-sponsored trip to gather folk songs in the Polish countryside.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When U.S. and Soviet manned spaceships are hijacked in Earth's orbit, Agent 007 must race to prevent a nuclear war between the superpowers. His dangerous mission takes him to Japan, where he battles the evil SPECTRE organization and its diabolical leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld"--Container.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
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Description
"From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues...
37) Fail-safe
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A computer malfunction causes nuclear-equipped American bombers to destroy Moscow and the president of the United States has to take terrible measures to appease the Soviets and prevent all-out nuclear war.
38) The coil
Author
Series
Liz Sansborough novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
442 p. ; 25 cm.
39) Killing Kennedy
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As global Cold War tensions mount and organized crime escalates in the U.S., a young, ambitious man from a wealthy family rises to become the leader of the free world. At the same time, a former dedicated Marine grows disillusioned with America. When their paths ultimately cross, the course of U.S. history will forever change.
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