Cold wars and proxy conflicts
The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB
The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War
‘Entertaining and vivid… This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment’ OBSERVER
‘Reads like a thriller’ THE SUN
The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
A Dangerous Game
International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in 1950s London.
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
A Times History Book of the Year 2022
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily Telegraph
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
‘Thrilling … High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘This book is a triumph’ DAN SNOW
Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, former National Security Advisor during Trump’s administration, a bold assessment of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges of our age.
Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells & the Hunt for Putin’s Agents
The urgent, explosive story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the West from the Cold War to the present – including their interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989
‘A gripping and compelling account…. The peaceful ending of the Cold War between West and East remains one of the greatest achievements of modern statecraft’ CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, Literary Review
This landmark global study makes us rethink what happened when the Cold War ended and our present era was born.
The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America’s Top Secrets
‘A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties … remarkable’ 5* review, Telegraph
On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Blériot, in this bestseller, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalin’s most audacious intelligence operation.
Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘His masterpiece’ Antony Beevor, Spectator
‘A masterful performance’ Sunday Times
‘By far the best book on the Vietnam War’ Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year
Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
‘Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness’ Simon Sebag Montefiore
‘A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel’ Independent
‘Superbly well told’ Sunday Times