Book review: Spies who have come in from the Cold War Monday Books: The Company of Strangers by Robert Wilson (HarperCollins pounds 12.99) Riptide by John Lawton (Weidenfeld pounds 16.99)AS THE Cold War fades in the memory, and authors and readers realise that there is life without Smiley...
Agent Sonya is the latest book by Ben Macintyre, who has made an art of writing nonfiction books about spies that read like thrillers (If you haven't read The Spy and the Traitor yet, you must). Agent Sonya was the codename of Ursula Kuczynski, a German Jew who ended up living in ...
I am fascinated by the French Resistance, and Alex Kershaw’sAvenue of Spiesis a worthy addition to my collection of World War II books. It’s not on a par withIn the Garden ofBeasts, by Erik Larson, but it’s still a riveting story: an American family, living in occupied Paris, sho...
This was also a sweet book about friendship. Not for everyone, but if you like travel writing and remember the Cold War, it was a delightful time capsule. Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews Speaking of the Cold War . . . although, this one is set after that time it is still a USA ...
But when Rebecca unknowingly steps into the rivalry between the Queen’s spymaster and a noblewoman who uses the maids as courtly spies, she is soon entangled in a web of deceit with the charming marquis Rupert St. John. The devastatingly handsome ne’er-do-well is the cousin of Raphael ...
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West (Simon & Schuster, 2024) is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin's means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and...
There are also more positive stories about pioneers such as Oxford scientist Dame Janet Vaughan who set up the world’s first mass blood donation system during the Second World War and Arunchalam Muruganantham who helped develop low-cost sanitary products in India. George is an engaging popular ...
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Stasiland by Anna Funder won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2004 (now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize) and chronicles the lives of several people who lived in the German Democratic Republic, also known as East Germany, during the Cold War. Funder, an Australian journalist,...
Cold war era novels inspired by the long, deadly reach of Moscow’s secret service June 22 2022 Summer Books 2022 Best summer books of 2022: Thrillers Adam LeBor selects his best mid-year reads May 25 2022 Review Spies in Canaan by David Park — a life in the shadows ...