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

September 2021 Issue

Adam Sisman

The Original Culture Warriors

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

By Louis Menand

LR

August 2021 Issue

Luke Daly-Groves

The Secret Powers of a Swagger Stick

Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World

By Giles Milton

LR

June 2021 Issue

Adam Sisman

The Spies Who Loved Each Other

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

By Anne Sebba

LR

February 1993 Issue

Toby Litt

Runaway Train

Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War

By Slavenka Drakulić

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 2020 Issue

Jonathan Meades

State Building

Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War

By Lukasz Stanek

LR

March 2020 Issue

Christopher Coker

The Great Thaw

The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the end of the Cold War

By Archie Brown

LR

December 2019 Issue

Christopher Andrew

Coming Out of the Cold

Post Wall Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989

By Kristina Spohr

LR

September 2019 Issue

Kevin Ruane

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Writer

Cold Warriors

By Duncan White

LR

May 2019 Issue

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

LR

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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