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24 books recommended for fans of Burn After Reading by Ladislas Farago, tied together by themes of Intelligence & Espionage, World War II, Wars & Conflicts, and Political Science.

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The Nazis Next Door — Eric Lichtblau

The Nazis Next Door

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Codebreakers’ Victory How the Allied Cryptographers Won World War II — Hervie Haufler

Codebreakers’ Victory How the Allied Cryptographers Won World War II

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Double Agent Balloon Dickie Metcalfe’s Espionage Career for MI5 and the Nazis — David Tremain

Double Agent Balloon Dickie Metcalfe’s Espionage Career for MI5 and the Nazis

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Shadow Warriors of World War II The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE — Gordon Thomas

Shadow Warriors of World War II The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Need to Know World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence — Nicholas Reynolds

Need to Know World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

Nicholas Reynolds

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Total Espionage Germany’s Information and Disinformation Apparatus 1932-40 — Curt Reiss

Total Espionage Germany’s Information and Disinformation Apparatus 1932-40

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Soe’s MasterMind An Authorized Biography of Major General Sir Colin Gubbins Kcmg, Dso, MC — Brian Lett

Soe’s MasterMind An Authorized Biography of Major General Sir Colin Gubbins Kcmg, Dso, MC

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

17 Carnations The Royals, the Nazis and the Biggest Cover-up in History — Andrew Morton

17 Carnations The Royals, the Nazis and the Biggest Cover-up in History

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Volunteer The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz — Jack Fairweather

The Volunteer The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz

Jack Fairweather

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Terasaki Hidenari, Pearl Harbor, and Occupied Japan A Bridge to Reality — Roger B. Jeans

Terasaki Hidenari, Pearl Harbor, and Occupied Japan A Bridge to Reality

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Fugitives A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War — Danny Orbach

Fugitives A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Dead Reckoning The Story of how Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor — Dick Lehr

Dead Reckoning The Story of how Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

War, Peace and International Relations An Introduction to Strategic History — Colin Gray

War, Peace and International Relations An Introduction to Strategic History

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Hemingway on the China Front His WWII Spy Mission with Martha Gellhorn — Peter Moreira

Hemingway on the China Front His WWII Spy Mission with Martha Gellhorn

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Ghosts of Honolulu A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor — Mark Harmon

Ghosts of Honolulu A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Codename Rygor The Spy Behind the Allied Victory in North Africa — Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski

Codename Rygor The Spy Behind the Allied Victory in North Africa

Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Shadow State Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Remaking of the West — Luke Harding

Shadow State Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Remaking of the West

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Operation Mincemeat How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory — Ben Macintyre

Operation Mincemeat How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Betrayal in Berlin The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation — Steve Vogel

Betrayal in Berlin The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Dieppe Revisited A Documentary Investigation — John P. Campbell

Dieppe Revisited A Documentary Investigation

John P. Campbell

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Nazis on the Potomac The Top-secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II — Robert Kent Sutton

Nazis on the Potomac The Top-secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II

Robert Kent Sutton

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Day Of Deceit The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor — Robert Stinnett

Day Of Deceit The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor

Robert Stinnett

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Double Crossed The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War — Matthew Avery Sutton

Double Crossed The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War

Matthew Avery Sutton

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

OSS and the Yugoslav Resistance, 1943-1945 — Kirk Ford

OSS and the Yugoslav Resistance, 1943-1945

Themes: Intelligence & Espionage • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

If Burn After Reading by Ladislas Farago is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Intelligence & Espionage, World War II, Wars & Conflicts and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Eric Lichtblau, Hervie Haufler, David Tremain, Gordon Thomas, and others.

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