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1. Ben Macintyre

   Author of Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal, A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, Operation Mincemeat
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2. Richard Rhodes

   Author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
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3. Douglas C. Waller

   Author of Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage, Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan
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4. Lynne Olson

   Author of Citizens of London : the Americans who stood with Britain in its darkest, finest hour, Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England, Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
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5. Stephen E. Ambrose

   Author of Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment, Citizen Soldiers : The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
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6. Elizabeth McIntosh

   Author of Sisterhood of Spies
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7. Kai Bird

   Author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
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8. William Stevenson

   Author of A Man Called Intrepid, Spymistress, Intrepid's Last Chance
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9. Rick Atkinson

   Author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943, The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944, The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
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10. Patrick K. O'Donnell

    Author of Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs, The Brenner Assignment: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II
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11. Leo Marks

    Author of Between Silk and Cyanide
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12. Gregg Herken

    Author of Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
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13. Priscilla Johnson McMillan

    Author of The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
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14. Michael Dobbs

    Author of Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America, Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War
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15. J. C. Masterman

    Author of The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945
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16. Sarah Helm

    Author of A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
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17. Joseph E. Persico

    Author of Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage
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18. James Bradley

    Author of Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, Flags of Our Fathers, The Imperial Cruise
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19. Ron Chernow

    Author of Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, Grant
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20. Denise Kiernan

    Author of The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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21. David McCullough

    Author of Truman, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
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22. Julia Child

    Author of My Life in France
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23. James Gleick

    Author of Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Isaac Newton
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24. Walter Isaacson

    Author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made, Leonardo da Vinci
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25. Alex Kershaw

    Author of The Few: The American "Knights Of The Air" Who Risked Everything To Fight In The Battle Of Britain, The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII's Most Decorated Platoon, Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris
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26. Thaddeus Holt

    Author of The Deceivers
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27. Kati Marton

    Author of True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy, Enemies of the People, Paris: A Love Story
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28. Richard P. Feynman

    Author of Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character, What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
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29. Jon Meacham

    Author of Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
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30. Thomas Powers

    Author of Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb, Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda
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31. Simon Winchester

    Author of The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible, The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
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32. Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Author of No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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33. David Halberstam

    Author of The Fifties, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
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34. Robert Dallek

    Author of The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960
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35. Jean Strouse

    Author of Morgan: American Financier
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36. Christopher M. Andrew

    Author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
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37. Joan Reardon

    Author of As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto
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38. Gordon Corera

    Author of Operation Columba--The Secret Pigeon Service: The Untold Story of World War II Resistance in Europe, The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service
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39. Cynthia C. Kelly

    Author of The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians
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40. John C. McManus

    Author of To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945, Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943, Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
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41. Peter Caddick-Adams

    Author of Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France, Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45
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42. Stephen Kinzer

    Author of The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
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43. Andrea Wulf

    Author of The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
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44. Stephan Talty

    Author of Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
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45. Nicholas Rankin

    Author of A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars, Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII
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46. Hunter S. Thompson

    Author of Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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47. Stephen Dorril

    Author of MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service
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48. Hampton Sides

    Author of Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission, Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
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49. Keith Jeffery

    Author of The Secret History of MI6: 1909-1949
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50. R. V. Jones

    Author of Most Secret War
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