March 2025 Issue Piers Brendon Freedom Readers The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War By Charlie English LR
September 2024 Issue David Anderson Breaking the Code To Catch a Spy: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold By Tim Tate
February 2022 Issue Adam Sisman Sleeping with the Enemy Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut By James Hanning Beirut Spy: The St George Hotel Bar – International Intrigue in the Middle East By Saïd K Aburish LR
June 2021 Issue Adam Sisman The Spies Who Loved Each Other Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy By Anne Sebba LR
February 2021 Issue Alan Judd 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
March 2019 Issue Christopher Andrew The Spy Who Loved Himself An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent By Owen Matthews
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
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
November 2003 Issue Mark Almond Spy State The Stasi Files: East Germany's Secret Operations Against Britain By Anthony Glees LR
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