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Cambridge essential historiesSummary: "The gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov, a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale nuclear world war, but now struggles to get his life back on track ... before it is too late. An epic and grand Cold War thriller that sends shivers down your spine and shows us just how close we came to apocalypse ... and it's not over yet! With a new Cold War rising and thousands of nuclear weapons on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANAmbinder, Marc
Summary: The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 AMBPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: "A dramatic re-creation and urgent examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclearstrikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must return to the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920.9106 PLOSasgen, Peter T.
Summary: The untold story of a covert submarine espionage operation against the Soviet Union during the Cold War, as experienced by the commanding officer of an active submarine. Few individuals outside the intelligence and submarine communities then knew anything about these top-secret missions, now known as the U.S. Navy's "silent service." Cloaking itself in virtual invisibility to avoid detection,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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Summary: "The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance -- American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR. It's LeCarre and "The Americans" for real"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOVAL, GEORGE HAGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KOVAL HAGFavreau, Marc
Summary: "An account of the Cold War spies whose survival depended on carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help avert global nuclear war and, in so doing, changed the global landscape in ways that are still felt today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 327.1273 FAV1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 327.1273 FAV
Finn, Peter
Summary: The dramatic, until-now-untold story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 891.73 FINSherwin, Martin J.
Summary: Sherwin sets the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War: how such a crisis arose, and why at the very last possible moment it didn't happen. He gives us a riveting explanation of the crisis itself, while also exploring the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post WWII world....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9106 SHEFinn, Peter
Summary: Drawing on newly declassified files, this is the story of how a book forbidden in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout paid a visit to Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.73 FINMacintyre, Ben
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent code-named "Sonya," who set the stage for the Cold War. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy EnglishCotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WERNER, RUTH MACSummary: During the Cold War, the CIA secretly raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The six-year operation included an intricate cover story by billionaire Howard Hughes. Drawing on declassified documents and never-before-seen interviews, NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY tells one of the highest-stakes, yet least-known stories of the Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuseto be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.9106 SHEHoffman, David E. (David Emanuel)
Summary: "While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 HOFSharp, David H.
Summary: Recounts Project AZORIAN, the clandestine Cold War efforts of the CIA, under the guise of an undersea mining operation, to recover the sunken Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9164 SHAOhler, Norman
Summary: "Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use-long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws-is rampant throughout the city. Split into four sectors, Berlin's drug policies are being enforced under the individual jurisdictions of each allied power-the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the US. In the American zone, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents the story of Manhattan Project scientist Ted Hall, who shared classified nuclear secrets with Russia in an effort to save the world from nuclear annihilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COMHoffman, David E. (David Emanuel)
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 HOFTate, Tim
Summary: "The thrilling never-before-told story of Agent Sniper, one of the Cold War's most effective counter-agents Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was one of the most important spies of the early Cold War. For two and a half years at the end of the 1950s,as a Lt. Colonel at the top of Poland's espionage service, he smuggled more than 5,000 top-secret Soviet bloc intelligence and military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOLENIEWSKI, MICHAEL TATReed, W. Craig.
Summary: "The world came close to annihilation during the Cold War--a sobering fact known to few besides the warriors engaged in the forty-six-year conflict. In this riveting new history, former U.S. Navy diver and fast-attack submariner W. Craig Reed provides a thrilling narrative of the tense underwater dramas and covert espionage operations that brought the United States and the former U.S.S.R. to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.93 REEHuchthausen, Peter A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley & Sons 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.922 HUCSummary: Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOOCherkashin, Victor
Contents: Inside the lion's den : Washington Station -- The training of a KGB handler -- Cold War front line : Beirut -- Treason -- Intrigue at Moscow centre -- Washington Station : the redefector -- Washington Station : the most dangerous spy -- Washington Station : how to catch a spy -- Washington Station : the biggest catch : Hanssen -- The final years of the KGB -- Wild capitalism in new Russia --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHERKASHIN, VICTOR CHEHaynes, John Earl.
Contents: Early Cold War spy cases -- The precursors -- Elizabeth Bentley: the case of the blond spy queen -- The Alger Hiss--Whittaker Chambers case -- The atomic espionage cases -- Judith Coplon: the spy who got away with it -- The Soble-Soblen case: last of the early Cold War spy trials -- The decline of the ideological spy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.131 HAYUrlocker, M. Z.
Summary: 1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022