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• The Abyss

  Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

  Hastings, Max,

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  For 13 days, mankind faced potential annihilation. Max Hastings provides new insight into the Cuban nuclear crisis using eyewitness interviews, archival documents and diaries, White House tape recordings and other sources.

• Need to Know

  World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

  Reynolds, Nicholas E.,

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  A historian and former CIA officer explores the early years of American intelligence, combining little-known history and gripping spy stories to illuminate its key role in securing Allied victory, which laid the foundation for future conflicts.

• A Spy Among Friends

  Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

  Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

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  The revelation in 1963 that British MI6 agent Kim Philby had betrayed Britain to the Soviets for decades rocked the Western intelligence community. A riveting and chilling account for anyone interested in Cold War history or the annals of spycraft.

• Atomic Spy

  the Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs

  Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike,

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  Klaus Fuchs was a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good. This gripping biography tells the story of the German-born British scientists who handed top-secret American plutonium bomb plans to the Soviets.

• The Big Burn

  Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America

  Egan, Timothy

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  Fires whipped through the national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana in 1910. No living person had ever seen anything like it. The response of Teddy Roosevelt and his forest rangers changed both public opinion and policy about the forests.

• Benjamin Franklin

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  Ken Burns' documentary follows Benjamin Franklin from growing up in Boston to establishing a printing empire, then to unlocking the mystery of electricity and helping create the United States.

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