1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink

5 best books like 1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink (Taylor Downing): The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations, Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

Author	David E. Hoffman
ISBN	0385537603

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War

While...

Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

Author	Antony Beevor
ISBN	0670918660

The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian

On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of...

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Author	Ronen Bergman
ISBN	1400069718

The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from the man hailed by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter”

The Talmud says: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” This instinct...

Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

Author

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Former NBA star and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history.
Instant New York Times and USA Today BestsellerPresident Barack Obama's Favorite...

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Author	Peter Pomerantsev
ISBN	1541762118

When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war.

We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our...