For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Espionage & Britain

February 2023 Issue

Zareer Masani

Golfing for Victory

Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler

By R T Howard

October 2021 Issue

Jane Ridley

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Queen

The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana

By Richard J Aldrich & Rory Cormac

December 2020 Issue

David Anderson

The Spy Who Taught Me

Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency

By John Ferris

How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence

By David Omand

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

Adrian Tinniswood

Hour of the She-Intelligencer

Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain

By Nadine Akkerman

August 2018 Issue

Simon Heffer

From Riga with Love

The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy That Never Dies

By Gill Bennett

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

August 1993 Issue

David Chipp

Bang Bang Kiss Kiss

17F: The Life of Ian Fleming

By Donald McCormick

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

October 2003 Issue

Alistair Horne

By Strength Alone?

Intelligence In War: Knowledge Of The Enemy From Napoleon To Al-Qaeda

By John Keegan

November 2003 Issue

Mark Almond

Spy State

The Stasi Files: East Germany's Secret Operations Against Britain

By Anthony Glees

November 2010 Issue

Hugh Bicheno

Official Secrets

MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909–1949

By Keith Jeffery

Six: A History of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, Part 1– Murder and Mayhem 1909–1939

By Michael Smith

October 2008 Issue

Nigel West

Smoking Gun

The Sixth Man

By James McNeish

Tom Fleming

The World Is Not Enough

For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond

By Ben Macintyre

M R D Foot

In Daily Peril

Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War

By Roderick Bailey (ed)

April 2008 Issue

Phillip Knightley

The Socialist at Centre-Half

Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak

By Jim Riordan

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

Christopher Andrew

Team of His Own

Snow: The Double Life of a World War II Spy

By Nigel West & Madoc Roberts

March 2005 Issue

Nigel Jones

The Good Spy

Betraying Hitler: Fritz Kolbe, the Most Important Spy of the Second World War

By Lucas Delattre