Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment

7 best books like Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment (Stephen E. Ambrose): A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam, Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II, Top Secret, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

Author	Ben Macintyre
ISBN	0804136637

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story.

Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height...

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Author

Tim Weiner

For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President...

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam

Author

Harold G. Moore

Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young.

In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command...

Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II

Author	William Stevenson
ISBN	1559707631

A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25. With her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and exceptional informants, Vera ran countless missions throughout the 1930s. After rising...

Top Secret

Author	W.E.B. Griffin
ISBN	0399171231

From the #1 New York Times�bestselling author, a brand-new series about the Cold War—and a different breed of warrior.
 
In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually...

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Author

Judea Pearl

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence
"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition...

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Author	Richard Rohr
ISBN	0470907754

A fresh way of thinking about spirituality that grows throughout life In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up." Most of us tend to think...