For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
20th Century & Russia & the Soviet Union & Espionage

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 2018 Issue

Simon Heffer

From Riga with Love

The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy That Never Dies

By Gill Bennett

September 2017 Issue

Richard Davenport-Hines

File Bodies

The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age

By Timothy Phillips

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

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

December 2015 Issue

Oleg Gordievsky

Power Lines

Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence

By Jonathan Haslam

November 2015 Issue

Alan Judd

Spider in the Web

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle

By Geoff Andrews

November 2015 Issue

Adam Sisman

Agent Reckless

Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess

By Andrew Lownie

March 2009 Issue

Nikolai Tolstoy

The Name’s Oggins

The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service

By Andrew Meier

October 2008 Issue

Nigel West

Smoking Gun

The Sixth Man

By James McNeish

April 2008 Issue

Phillip Knightley

The Socialist at Centre-Half

Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak

By Jim Riordan