Cold War Shivers - novels and accounts

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1.  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
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  "the master - you have to start here. He has turned the spy novel into high literature"
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The Honourable Schoolboy
2.  The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
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  "intricate, thought-provoking and fascinating"
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Smiley's People
3.  Smiley's People by John le Carré
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  "it was no accident that Markus Wolf (boss of East German secret service) would read Le Carre to find out what his opposite numbers were thinking"
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A Perfect Spy
4.  A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
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  "(semi?) autobiographical - the personal crises as a result of a life of deceit, stunningly told"
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Absolute Friends
5.  Absolute Friends by John le Carré
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  "survivors of the cold war finding life after it harder to navigate & survive"
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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
6.  1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
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  "He saw it all in 1948 - it surely fed the paranoia of the age"
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The Successor
7.  The Successor by Ismail Kadare
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  "the machinations of the most closed communist country of all - Albania"
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The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War
8.  The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War by Peter Hennessy
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  "so what did the British government plan if the worst came to the worst - Hennessy has been digging"
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The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West (Penguin Press History)
9.  The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West (Penguin Press History) by Christopher Andrew
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  "this really did happen!"
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Cambridge Spies : Complete BBC Series [2003] [DVD]
10.  Cambridge Spies : Complete BBC Series [2003] [DVD] DVD ~ Tom Hollander
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  "they had such idealism and in a perverted sort of way, integrity - but look what it was for and where it got them. Powerful drama"
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One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
11.  One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
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  "13 days that epitomised the threats at the heart of the cold war - and the story of how we came back from the brink... just..."
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The Lives of Others [DVD] [2006]
12.  The Lives of Others [DVD] [2006] DVD ~ Martina Gedeck
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  "an intensely humane and life-affirming film amidst the bleakness and fear of east berlin"
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
13.  Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
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  "A profoundly important book that gives insight to the impact of the world's most effective surveillance society on individual lives"
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Bridge of Spies
14.  Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell
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  "Gripping account of the real-life U2 SpyPlane Spy swap on a Berlin Bridge"
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