April 2021 Issue Andrew Crumey One Giant Leap for Mankind Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space By Stephen Walker
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 2018 Issue Richard Overy Won in the Post The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt By David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov 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
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
March 2009 Issue Nikolai Tolstoy The Name’s Oggins The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service By Andrew Meier LR
November 2008 Issue Richard Overy A Dirty Conflict World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West By Laurence Rees LR
May 2008 Issue Donald Rayfield Strolls with Vladimir Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics By Nina L Khrushcheva
March 2008 Issue M R D Foot Silence at the Front The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War Really Ended By Nicholas Best 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
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
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