In the quaint, unassuming Isle of Portland, Dorset, the late 1950s hummed with the monotony of everyday life. Little did its residents know that their sleepy enclave would soon become the epicentre of an international [More]
This cat! She’s a real bookworm. Now she’s demanding my credit card and threatening to vomit a hairball in my shoes if I don’t buy her more books! That’s black-cat-mail! Well, this is Maggie’s newest [More]
Podcast Version: https://www.buzzsprout.com/868255/13689954 October’s book is: Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution. 00:00 – Introduction 02:11 – The Author and Sources 07:31 – Preface 08:43 – [More]
A discussion of the mature merits in the opening novel of Deighton’s Game-Set-Match trilogy. Recommended if you like: The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton Mexico Set and London Match by Len [More]
Double Agents and their Impact on the Cold War The Cold War was a time of espionage, intrigue, and double agents. Governments on both sides of the Iron Curtain used spies to gather critical information [More]
A discussion with a handful of readings from le Carré’s 1963 masterpiece. Recommended if you like: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré The Honourable School by John le Carré The Little Drummer Girl [More]
In the late 1960s, the East German secret police (the Stasi) started to see Germany’s gay subculture as both a threat and an opportunity for intelligence work. Western espionage services had long sought to exploit [More]
In 1954, while thousands were fleeing communist East Berlin, American and British intelligence officers were tunneling in. Working with Britain’s MI6 and US and British army engineers, the CIA dug a tunnel into the Soviet [More]
Get a 30-day free trial of Dashlane here: https://www.dashlane.com/infographics Use the code “infographics” for 10% off of Dashlane Premium! Who was better at spying during the Cold War? Was it the CIA or was it [More]
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the [More]
Head to squarespace.com/aclockworkreader to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code “ACLOCKWORKREADER” if you’re in need of an emotional book to remind you that you do indeed still have [More]
Movie review of the Japanese romantic drama, time travel movie, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (2019). Kazu works for family at a café. There is a belief that occupying a specific table seat at a [More]
Maureen Fitzpatrick discusses ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ by John le Carré . The Great Books Mini-Lecture Series is designed to introduce you to watershed texts that have changed readers’ views of [More]
In this episode of ‘Minutes With’ we sit down with David Butler, a former British spy who was active in East Berlin during the Cold War. David takes us through some of his most dangerous [More]
Cold War Comics specializes in pre-code comic books with a Cold War theme. This includes comics with art and stories about the Korean War and Cold War espionage. My goal is to better acquaint you [More]
The Cold War | Non-Fiction Book Recommendations TIME STAMPS: 0:00 Intro & What Led to this Video 1:28 A Good Introductory Book 3:30 A Book about Espionage 5:44 Books about the Rosenbergs 8:59 A Documentary [More]
Intelligence Squared presents a live podcast recording about the spies fighting communism during the Cold War. At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing [More]
A top-ranking Soviet spy turned double agent for British intelligence. A high stakes MI6 extraction that whisked him away from the KGB and into hiding. It sounds like the plot of a blockbuster film but [More]
Over the past hundred years, Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency has worked through two world wars, the Cold War and the fight against terrorism – with as much secrecy as possible. Now, a British intelligence scholar, [More]
Otto John (19 March 1909 – 26 March 1997) was the first head of West Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, from 1950 to 1954. He is best known [More]
Top 10 Cold War Books to buy in India Find the links below to buy these products: List of top Cold War Books: The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World https://www.amazon.in/dp/141989475?&tag=vasthurengan03-21 The Spy [More]
Cold War Comics specializes in pre-code comic books with a Cold War theme. This includes comics with art and stories about the Korean War and Cold War espionage. My goal is to better acquaint you [More]
Kluge Staff Fellow John Haynes discusses making new sources accessible and specifically, a digital concordance to early Cold War Soviet espionage record. Speaker Biography: John E. Haynes is an American historian and specialist in 20th [More]
Narrated by Frank Muller. The story of a perilous assignment for the agent who wants to desperately end his career of espionage — to come in from the cold.
Audiobook: https://amzn.to/35PPvYO (Free with your Audible trial) (Free with your Audible trial) The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, [More]
#JamesBond #espionage #ColdWar I’m Mark, and I read a lot of books. So, I thought I would record my thoughts on those I do. These thoughts tend to be long, in depth and by way [More]
