October 2016 Issue Jeremy Lewis Hiding in Plain Sight Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi By Paddy Ashdown LR
June 2016 Issue Christopher Andrew Whispers in Downing Street The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers By Richard J Aldrich, Rory Cormac LR
November 2015 Issue David Stafford The Decryption Factor The Secret War: Spies, Codes & Guerrillas 1939–45 By Max Hastings LR
March 2010 Issue Jeremy Lewis The Man Who Never Was Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II By Ben Macintyre LR
October 2008 Issue Paul Addison Gabbo & Bovril Churchill’s Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914–1945 By Nicholas Rankin LR
May 2008 Issue 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) 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
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
May 2012 Issue Christopher Andrew Team of His Own Snow: The Double Life of a World War II Spy By Nigel West & Madoc Roberts LR
February 2005 Issue Richard Overy The Man Who Plotted for Peace Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery By Richard Bassett LR
March 2005 Issue Nigel Jones The Good Spy Betraying Hitler: Fritz Kolbe, the Most Important Spy of the Second World War By Lucas Delattre LR
April 2014 Issue Nicholas Rankin Pujoling a Fast One The Spy with 29 Names: The Story of the Second World War’s Most Audacious Double Agent By Jason Webster LR
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