Best Cold War Novels

[Zephyer]

Any recommendations for the best cold war novels to read?

Im looking for the classic type spy/cold war novel, with spies and counterspies, military secrets, defections and betrayals, brinskmanship between governments and security agencies, undercover operations etc. I don't what something in the James Bond genre which always seemed very glamourous in comparsion to reality.

I'm trying to draw up a list of the ten best to read.

I have the obvious Le Carre threesome of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, Tinker Tailor etc and The Honourable Schoolboy

Any other suggestions?

[EcclesCake]

Philip Kerr, Berlin Noir is a good read, there are other Cold War novels by him too.

William Boyd has written a couple too which are quite interesting.

[bednobs]

i love "the enemy" by desmond bagley

[askyourgran]

Stella Rimington, ex head of MI5 is an author I've read a few of her books, very good.

[DTCwordfan]

The Manchurian Candidate..........same era.

[LazyGun]

Pretty much all of Len Deightons novels, i would have thought, from the Harry Palmer books such as the Ipcress File, through to the Bernard Samson Game Set and Match and Hook, Line and Sinker trilogies....

[Rosie29]

Mr Rosie def agrees with LazyGun - he might think of some more in aminute

[Clanad]

Two Graham Greene novels top my list of all time favorites. The Third Man[i and [i]Our Man in Havana[i]. Both books suffered from being overshadowed by movies that were made from them (although both movies were excellent).

I would also add [i]The Day of the Jackal[i] by Frederick Forsyth and last but not least, [i]Little America] set in 1958, by Henry Bromell...

[Anita12345]

Some novels on cold war are as follows:
The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore

[sandyRoe]

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