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All the Pontiff’s Men
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Breaking the Code
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D J Taylor
Becoming James Bond
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March 2023 Issue
Angus Reilly
Better Dead than Red
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By Beverly Gage
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February 2023 Issue
Adam Sisman
From Odessa with Love
Sidney Reilly: Master Spy
By Benny Morris
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February 2022 Issue
Adam Sisman
Sleeping with the Enemy
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut
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Beirut Spy: The St George Hotel Bar – International Intrigue in the Middle East
By Saïd K Aburish
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June 2021 Issue
Adam Sisman
The Spies Who Loved Each Other
Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy
By Anne Sebba
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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
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September 2019 Issue
Allan Massie
An Old-fashioned Kind of Spy
Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming
By Alan Ogden
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August 2019 Issue
Michael Burleigh
All the President’s Hitmen
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies & Operators
By Annie Jacobsen
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March 2019 Issue
Christopher Andrew
The Spy Who Loved Himself
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
By Owen Matthews
October 2018 Issue
Frederick Forsyth
Our Kind of Traitor
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By Ben Macintyre
August 1988 Issue
George Stern
Espionage is So Much More Amusing in French
The Evil Empire: The Third World War Now
By Count de Marenches & Christine Ockrent
The Friends: Britain's Post-War Secret Intelligence Operations
By Nigel West
August 2018 Issue
Simon Heffer
From Riga with Love
The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy That Never Dies
By Gill Bennett
LR
July 2018 Issue
Richard Norton-Taylor
On Her Majesty’s Shady Service
Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy
By Rory Cormac
February 2018 Issue
Piers Brendon
Spooked Out
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
By Richard Davenport-Hines
September 2017 Issue
Richard Davenport-Hines
File Bodies
The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age
By Timothy Phillips
LR
June 1995 Issue
Martin Walker
They Got It All Wrong
For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush
By Christopher Andrew
LR
May 2017 Issue
Alan Judd
Monkey Business
M: Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster
By Henry Hemming
LR
August 1993 Issue
David Chipp
Bang Bang Kiss Kiss
17F: The Life of Ian Fleming
By Donald McCormick
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