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Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez-her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash...
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Criterion collection volume 821
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Eager for war, a general plans a nuclear apocalypse.
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George Smiley novels volume 9
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Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George...
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George Mueller novels volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 23 cm
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"This gripping first novel in a spy thriller series, set in Washington D.C. at the height of the Red Scare, investigates a double agent in the CIA whose betrayals threaten to compromise the two lead investigators, the Agency, and the entire nation"--
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Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxii, 489 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after...
67) Balloon
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set in 1979 East Germany, two families hatch a plan to escape to the West in a homemade hot air balloon.
69) Callan: Set 2
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
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4 videodiscs (663 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A British assassin works for a secret intelligence service during the Cold War. The acclaimed British spy series reaches its captivating conclusion. A Cold War assassin is trapped in a shadowy intelligence agency. A gripping espionage drama set in the dark days of the Cold War, akin to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Bonus features included.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
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4 DVDs (ca. 605 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The stakes have never been higher for KGB operatives Philip and Elizabeth Jennings than in this pulse pounding fourth season. Still grieving the death of her mother, Elizabeth berates Paige for telling her pastor about her parents' covert profession. A deadly bioweapon threatens Gabriel's life, and the couple shatters the lives of loved ones when Martha is told Clark's true identity and Elizabeth betrays her friend Young-Hee.
73) The atomic cafe
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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"A compilation of archival film clips beginning with the first atomic bomb detonation in the New Mexico desert. The footage, much of it produced as government propaganda, follows the story of the bomb through the two atomic attacks on Japan that ended World War II to the bomb's central role in the cold war. Shown along with the famous 'duck and cover' Civil Defense films are lesser-known clips, many of which possess a bizarre black humor when seen...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 575 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
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"During the Cold War, superpowers amassed nuclear arsenals containing the explosive power of one million Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union secretly plotted to create the 'Dead Hand,' a system designed to launch an automatic retaliatory nuclear strike on the United States, and developed a fearsome biological warfare machine. President Ronald Reagan, hoping to awe the Soviets into submission, pushed hard for the creation of space-based missile defenses....
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Alfred A. Knopf Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
306 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm
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"In twentieth century America, no threat loomed larger than the communist superpower of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of the United States attempted to use deep economic and racial disparities in American culture to win over members and sympathizers. Marrin shows how the miscarriage of justice in the Scotsboro Boys case, the tragedy of the Rosenbergs, and the menace of the Joseph McCarthy and his war hearings lured many Americans to the ideals...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Checkpoint Charlie is the story of the men and women - from both sides of the Cold War's political divide - who lived, served on, or escaped through the Berlin Wall during its life span (13th August 1961 - 9th November 1989). This physical monstrosity created by the East German communist state was to divide one of the most beautiful and by 1961, ruined cities of the world; dividing families, friends and lovers. Its creation, and its sudden collapse...
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"A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged Austrian police in his wake. He's been lying low ever since, but that little vacation is about to end. Somebody--Odessa, the NKGB, the Hungarian Secret Police?--has broken the criminals out of jail, and he must track them down again..."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 22 cm
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"A thought provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power. When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. Our side had won, a verdict that was both decisive and irreversible. For the world's 'indispensable nation,' its 'sole superpower,'...
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