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"In Code Warriors, [the author tells] how NSA came to be, from its roots in World War II through the fall of the Berlin Wall. Along the way, he guides us through the fascinating challenges faced by cryptanalysts, and how they broke some of the most complicated codes of the twentieth century. With access to new documents, Budiansky shows where the agency succeeded and failed during the Cold War, but his account also offers crucial perspective for assessing NSA today in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations. Budiansky shows how NSA's obsession with recording every bit of data and decoding every signal is far from a new development; throughout its history the depth and breadth of the agency's reach has resulted in both remarkable successes and destructive failures"--Amazon.com.

This contextualized narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia explores the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler's 'chief social philosopher'. It also chronicles the hunt for the diary, which was lost for almost three quarters of a century.

The narrator, a Russian Jew, remembers the rare and amazing friend of his childhood, before the Nazi invasion of Russia separated them forever.

Discusses how Russian and American youth have gotten acquainted.

Briefly explores the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and the causes and effects of the end of the Cold War on both the United States and the Soviet Union.

From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey Kondrashev knew who former foe, ex-CIA officer Tennent H. "Pete" Bagley, was. During a 1994 television program about former spymasters, both men met and began a close friendship. The Russian eventually asked Bagley to help him write his memoirs. Their collective memories revel slices of espionage history that rival anything found in the pages of Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, or John le Carre. Publication of Kondrashev's memoir was banned by Putin's regime and so Bagley promised to have them published in the West. Kondrashev died in 2007. Bagley passed away in 2014.