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Author
Publisher
Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
11 CDs (13 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly...
85) The game
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (354 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A secret committee of spies and intelligence officers investigate a Soviet plot to activate sleeper agents across the United Kingdom.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations, photographs, facsimiles ; 22 cm.
Description
"Set in 1954, this compelling historical novel tells the story of a young girl's struggles and triumphs in the aftermath of World War II. The war is over, but the threat of communism and the Cold War loom over the United States. In Detroit, Michigan, twelve-year-old Marjorie Campbell struggles with the ups and downs of family life, dealing with her veteran father's unpredictable outbursts, keeping her mother's stash of banned library books a secret,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 527 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is 1987, and an imminent Gorbachev-Reagan nuclear arms summit promises to ease world tensions. But life for the Nennings family is more precarious than ever: Elizabeth's relentless dedication as a KGB agent has dealt a potentially lethal blow to her marriage to Philip, who has left espionage behind. As Philip's friendship with FBI agent Stan Beeman grows, the danger of exposure of the family 'business,' which now includes Paige, reaches crisis...
88) Jack Strong
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on true events during the Cold War, Polish army colonel Ryszard Kuklinski risks his and his family's lives as an informant for the CIA when he learns that Poland could become the site of a nuclear counterattack against the Soviet Union.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 593 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"An in-depth and masterful account of how Ronald Reagan's foreign policy "team of rivals" ended the Cold War and laid the foundation for the twenty-first century. Today, the ending of the Cold War seems a foregone conclusion. But in the early 1980s, U.S.intelligence predicted the Soviet Union would last another century. Ronald Reagan entered the White House with no certainty of what would happen next, only an overriding faith in American democracy...
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001, c1964
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A satire in which the President and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Formats
Description
The American Sector explores the presence of the Berlin Wall in the United States: as an object, artifact, and supposed symbol of national values. For 18 months Pacho Velez and Courtney Stephens traveled the US to document sections of the wall that are on display in over 75 locations, ranging from the serious (Fort Benning) to the bizarre (Main Street Station Casino in Las Vegas) and even the campus of nearby Capital University. Along the way, interviews...
93) Suspect red
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
[291] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In 1950s Washington, D.C., teenaged Richard, a bookworm whose father works for the FBI, experiences effects of McCarthyism, beginning with book banning and ending with a threat to his half-Czech friend.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the history of the Berlin Wall, from its construction in 1961 to the opening in 1989. Examines the lives of ordinary citizens caught in the politics of the Cold War, the extraordinary efforts of East Berliners to cross to the West, and the birth of the freedom movement in East Germany's Protestant Church.
95) Tiempos recios
Author
Series
Publisher
Miami, FL
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"Guatemala, 1954. El golpe militar perpetrado por Carlos Castillo Armas y auspiciado por Estados Unidos a través de la CIA derroca el gobierno de Jacobo Árbenz. Detrás de este acto violento se encuentra una mentira que pasó por verdad y que cambió el devenir de América Latina: la acusación por parte del gobierno de Eisenhower de que Árbenz alentaba la entrada del comunismo soviético en el continente. Tiempos recios es una historia de conspiraciones...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xi, 349 pages ; 25 cm
Description
At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world--using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets...
99) Raven Rock: the story of the U.S. Government's secret plan to save itself-while the rest of us die
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxv, 529 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Description
"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--a roadmap that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today"--Provided by publisher.
100) Walls
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In the days before the treacherous overnight raising of the Berlin Wall, teenaged cousins Drew, an American army brat in West Berlin, and Matthias, a young communist in East Berlin, become wary friends on opposite sides of the Cold War. Interspersed throughout the story are captioned photographs from the era.
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