From the February 2021 Issue Some Like It Hot The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War – a Tragedy in Three Acts By Scott Anderson LR
From the May 2017 Issue Monkey Business M: Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster By Henry Hemming LR
From the September 2016 Issue Secrets & Lies Spymaster: The Life of Britain’s Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield By Martin Pearce LR
From the December 2015 Issue The Guy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carré: The Biography By Adam Sisman LR
From the November 2015 Issue Spider in the Web The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle By Geoff Andrews LR
From the July 2015 Issue Cloak & Data The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror By Stephen Grey LR
From the June 2014 Issue Joining the Microdots Prisoners, Lovers & Spies: The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda By Kristie Macrakis LR
From the September 2012 Issue From Iris to Sofia A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson By Peter J Conradi LR
From the December 2012 Issue On the Road On Wheels: Five Easy Pieces By Michael Holroyd Carscapes: The Motor Car, Architecture and Landscape in England By Kathryn A Morrison and John Minnis LR
From the August 2013 Issue Spying Aces Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game – How British Spies Thwarted Lenin’s Global Plot By Giles Milton LR
From the December 2013 Issue Va Va Voom The Life of the Automobile: A New History of the Motor Car By Steven Parissien LR
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