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Reggie
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There is this gentleman that comes in almost everyday and plays the same machines at my casino. He‘s a Navy veteran who worked on submarines. He lent me 2 books and this is one of them. Was it on my 2025 bingo card to read about life on a 1960s submarine mission? No, but here we are. And as someone who has never read about submarine navy life I found it fascinating. I wouldn‘t say this is narrative but slice of life. Pick!

Ruthiella Neat! I definitely shy away from nonfiction , but am more often than not pleased when I actually read it! 22h
JanuarieTimewalker13 I worked at a casino in Vegas from 1991-1993….a long, long time ago. It was such a fascinating experience…the people I met came from ALL walks of life! I learned a lot from talking to different folks!! 3h
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Mission Thaw
Mission Thaw | Kay Sparling
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TheAromaofBooks
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Published in 1980, only four years after Belenko's escape from Russia (and well before the fall of the Berlin Wall), this book was quite fascinating. Belenko actually had more or less the ideal situation in Russia as the MiG-25 pilots were highly valued and treated well (by Soviet standards). Reading about his slow recognition of the cognitive dissonance between what he was being taught about his country vs the west and what he could actually ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) observe with his own eyes was intriguing. Thoroughly enjoyable and a reminder of what life in the Soviet was actually like.

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TieDyeDude I used to read a lot about the Cold War, though admittedly most of my reading had a Western bias. This sounds like it would be a really interesting book! 6d
TheAromaofBooks @TieDyeDude - It's a really quick read (under 300pgs), which is nice but also means that sometimes I wished I could get more details. When I was checking to see what happened to Belenko after 1980, I was surprised to find that he just passed away two years ago! 6d
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Mission Thaw
Mission Thaw | Kay Sparling
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Mission Thaw
Mission Thaw | Kay Sparling
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Schwifty
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While I was in Berlin, I met a British tour guide who referenced this specific book as a great introduction to the advent and dissolution of East Germany or the German Democratic Republic. Funny enough, I was already reading it. Hoyer does a particularly nice job with the format relating individual experiences of citizens of various locales, backgrounds, industries, dissenters and true believers and builds the historical narrative off this device.

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Vansa
American Spy: A Novel | Lauren Wilkinson
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Look no further than this book for your next spy novel if you haven't already read it.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578192350

Bookwormjillk This was a good one! 2w
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Mission Thaw
Mission Thaw | Kay Sparling
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Mission Thaw
Mission Thaw | Kay Sparling
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Mission Thaw
Mission Thaw | Kay Sparling
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Mission THAW is a Cold War female espionage story. Based on Fact. How does an opera singer become a spy? In this highly acclaimed thriller, Kaitlyn Stewart joins a team to bring down the Berlin Wall.

www.kaysparlingbooks.com

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