For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Cold War

Robert Service

From Warsaw to Washington

Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet

By Edward Luce

March 2025 Issue

Piers Brendon

Freedom Readers

The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War

By Charlie English

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

July 2023 Issue

Robert Service

The Misinformation Game

Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By Calder Walton

April 2023 Issue

John Kampfner

Honecker’s Hidden Pleasures

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990

By Katja Hoyer

Robert Chandler

Memories of Odessa

The Story of a Life: Books One–Three

By Konstantin Paustovsky (Translated from Russian by Douglas Smith)

April 2022 Issue

Robert Service

From Thaw to War

Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Stalemate

By M E Sarotte

February 2022 Issue

Theo Zenou

From Russia with Loathing

Bond Behind the Iron Curtain

By James Fleming

February 2022 Issue

Robert Service

Grey Man of Red Square

Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman

By Susanne Schattenberg (Translated from German by John Heath)

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

September 2021 Issue

Adam Sisman

The Original Culture Warriors

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

By Louis Menand

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

June 2021 Issue

Adam Sisman

The Spies Who Loved Each Other

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

By Anne Sebba

June 2021 Issue

Lawrence Freedman

Countdown to Armageddon

Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Serhii Plokhy

February 1993 Issue

Toby Litt

Runaway Train

Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War

By Slavenka Drakulić

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

April 1984 Issue

Lesley Chamberlain

Warsaw Diary

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

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

December 2019 Issue

Christopher Andrew

Coming Out of the Cold

Post Wall Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989

By Kristina Spohr