December 2019 Issue
Christopher Andrew
Coming Out of the Cold
Post Wall Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989
By Kristina Spohr
LR
November 2019 Issue
Maurice Frank
Writing on the Wall
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
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
September 1997 Issue
Jonathan Haslam
A Foolish Gesture to Boys in Short Trousers
‘One Hell of a Gamble’: Khrushchev, Castro, Kennedy, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958–1964
By Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali
LR
October 1983 Issue
Christopher Hitchens
Last, Best Hope
The Making of the Second Cold War
By Fred Halliday
LR
October 2015 Issue
Christopher Andrew
Intelligence Tests
The End of the Cold War 1985–1991
By Robert Service
LR
April 2009 Issue
Paul Addison
No Turning Back
Thatcher’s Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era
By Richard Vinen
LR
August 2008 Issue
Christopher Coker
A Sour War
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
By David Halberstam
LR
November 2007 Issue
Frederick Taylor
Dramatic Divide
Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War
By Patrick Wright
LR
September 2007 Issue
Raymond Seitz
Milestones of Diplomacy
Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century
By David Reynolds
LR
July 2007 Issue
Christopher Coker
How to Fight a Cold War
George Kennan: A Study in Character
By John Lukacs
LR
July 2007 Issue
Gerard Baker
Saint Ronald
The Reagan Diaries
By Douglas Brinkley (ed)
LR
November 2006 Issue
Giles MacDonogh
A Country Immured
The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 – 9 November 1989
By Frederick Taylor
LR
May 2006 Issue
Richard Overy
A Curious Correspondence
My Dear Mr Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph V Stalin
By Susan Butler (ed), Foreward by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
LR
December 2011 Issue
Robert Irwin
Return of the Mahdi?
Saladin
By Anne-Marie Eddé (Translated by Jane Marie Todd)
LR
December 2011 Issue
Odd Arne Westad
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War
By Frank Costigliola
LR
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