Richard Greene

The Cuban Connection

Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene’s Cold War Spy Novel

By Christopher Hull

LR

March 2019 Issue

Christopher Andrew

The Spy Who Loved Himself

An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent

By Owen Matthews

December 2007 Issue

Tom Fleming

Match of the Century

White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard

By Daniel Johnson

March 2018 Issue

Christopher Coker

Peace Offering

The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War

By Benn Steil

February 2018 Issue

Margot Light

Apocalypse Averted

Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation

By Rodric Braithwaite

September 2017 Issue

Christopher Andrew

The Big Chill

The Cold War: A World History

By Odd Arne Westad

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September 2016 Issue

Alan Judd

Secrets & Lies

Spymaster: The Life of Britain’s Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield

By Martin Pearce

LR

February 1980 Issue

Bernard Crick

Political Memoirs

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October 1979 Issue

Paul Wilkinson, Anthony Storr

The Evil that Men do…

The Search for the 'Manchurian Candidate': The Story of the CIA's Secret Efforts to Control Human Behaviour

By John Marks

LR

June 2016 Issue

Christopher Andrew

Whispers in Downing Street

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers

By Richard J Aldrich, Rory Cormac

LR

September 1997 Issue

Jonathan Haslam

A Foolish Gesture to Boys in Short Trousers

‘One Hell of a Gamble’: Khrushchev, Castro, Kennedy, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958–1964

By Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali

LR

October 1983 Issue

Christopher Hitchens

Last, Best Hope

The Making of the Second Cold War

By Fred Halliday

LR

October 2015 Issue

Christopher Andrew

Intelligence Tests

The End of the Cold War 1985–1991

By Robert Service

LR

July 1985 Issue

Christopher Hitchens

Three Theories

Breaking with Moscow

By Arkady Shevchenko

LR

September 2003 Issue

Simon Heffer

Culture Clash

The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War

By David Caute

LR

November 2003 Issue

Mark Almond

Spy State

The Stasi Files: East Germany's Secret Operations Against Britain

By Anthony Glees

LR

February 2004 Issue

J W M Thompson

Arms And Academia

Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger

By Richard Pipes

LR

April 2009 Issue

Paul Addison

No Turning Back

Thatcher’s Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era

By Richard Vinen

LR

August 2008 Issue

Christopher Coker

A Sour War

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

By David Halberstam

LR

October 2008 Issue

Nigel West

Smoking Gun

The Sixth Man

By James McNeish

LR

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