June 2021 Issue Adam Sisman The Spies Who Loved Each Other Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy By Anne Sebba LR
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 LR
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 LR
December 2007 Issue Tom Fleming Match of the Century White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard By Daniel Johnson
March 2018 Issue Christopher Coker Peace Offering The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War By Benn Steil
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
October 1983 Issue Christopher Hitchens Last, Best Hope The Making of the Second Cold War By Fred Halliday LR
September 2003 Issue Simon Heffer Culture Clash The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War By David Caute LR
February 2004 Issue J W M Thompson Arms And Academia Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger By Richard Pipes LR
August 2008 Issue Christopher Coker A Sour War The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War By David Halberstam LR
December 2007 Issue John Gribbin Fly Me to the Moon Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age By Matthew Brzezinski Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest By Gerard DeGroot LR
November 2007 Issue Frederick Taylor Dramatic Divide Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War By Patrick Wright LR
August 2007 Issue Christopher Coker They Deserved Each Other Nixon: The Invincible Quest By Conrad Black Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power By Robert Dallek LR
July 2007 Issue Christopher Coker How to Fight a Cold War George Kennan: A Study in Character By John Lukacs 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 Odd Arne Westad Cold Hands, Warm Heart Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War By Frank Costigliola LR
March 2014 Issue Christopher Coker Out of Step with History The Kennan Diaries By Frank Costigliola (ed) LR
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