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 LR
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
October 2016 Issue Jeremy Lewis Hiding in Plain Sight Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi By Paddy Ashdown 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
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 Donald Rayfield Philosophers & Murderers Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism By Charles Clover A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West By Luke Harding LR
November 2015 Issue David Stafford The Decryption Factor The Secret War: Spies, Codes & Guerrillas 1939–45 By Max Hastings LR
October 2008 Issue Paul Addison Gabbo & Bovril Churchill’s Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914–1945 By Nicholas Rankin LR
February 2008 Issue M R D Foot Albanian Operations The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle By Roderick Bailey LR
February 2008 Issue Nigel Jones Not What It Seemed The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France By Simon Kitson (Translated by Catherine Tihanyi) LR
September 2007 Issue Michael Burleigh Legacy of Ashes Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA By Tim Weiner LR
April 2007 Issue David Stafford A Man With No Side Thirty Secret Years: A G Denniston’s Work in Signals Intelligence 1914–1944 By Robin Denniston LR
February 2005 Issue Richard Overy The Man Who Plotted for Peace Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery By Richard Bassett LR
April 2005 Issue Nigel Jones Very Gallant Gentlemen Secret War Heroes: Men of the Special Operations Executive By Marcus Binney LR
February 2013 Issue Michael Burleigh At Sixes & Fives Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire By Calder Walton LR
March 2014 Issue James Barr Going Freestyle America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East By Hugh Wilford LR
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