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2022 Summer Reads from Aspects of History

Our authors and contributors recommend books to take on summer holidays.

Summer Reads from Aspects of HistoryTimothy Ashby Author of Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593)At the top of my favourites list of recent historical books is Leanda de Lisle´s The White King. Although non-fiction, the book reads...

The Happy Traitor, by Simon Kuper

George Blake's death in 2020 led to the publication of this new biography from Simon Kuper.

Helen Fry

On a Saturday in 2012, journalist Simon Kuper had the highly sought-after opportunity to interview the last surviving traitor of the Cold War, George Blake, in his dacha (home) outside Moscow. As it turned out, Kuper is believed to have been the last Western...

Capital of Spies, by Sven Felix Kellerhoff and Bernd von Kostka

An updated edition of a history of spying in Berlin during the Cold War is 'first-class'.

David Webb-Carter

Capital of Spies For anyone who lived in West Berlin during the sixties, seventies or eighties, the very mention of the great city’s name on a news bulletin brought a frisson of excitement with memories of Russian checkpoints, the Wall and constant flow of spy stories...

Rewriting the History of the Second World War

Sean McMeekin argues that it was an allied intervention on behalf of Soviet Russia that led to the triumph of Stalin in Asia, the consequences of which we continue to see today.

Sean McMeekin

In the popular mind, World War Two endures as the ‘Good War’: a heroic struggle against evil with a happy ending. But there have always been nagging questions, not least whether any conceivable post-war world was worth the sacrifice of 50 or 60 million dead. Why did a...

Capital of Spies: Bernd von Kostka on Berlin

Bernd von Kostka is an acclaimed historian of the Cold War in Germany. Here he discusses his book on espionage in Berlin.

Bernd von Kostka

Bernd von Kostka, Berlin was the epicentre of the Cold War, with multiple clandestine agencies operating there. Many operations took place in the decades up to the fall of the wall, but which were the most successful? Well, usually the most successful operations are...

Capital of Spies

After the end of the Second World War, Berlin was a hotbed of espionage.

Bernd von Kostka

Berlin emerged after the end of World War II as a geographically and politically ideal base of operations for secret service activities. As the point of intersection between East and West, Berlin exerted an almost magical attraction on intelligence agencies. The city...

Alex Gerlis

Alex Gerlis was a BBC journalist for nearly thirty years and is the author of nine Second World war espionage thrillers, all published by Canelo. His first four novels are in the acclaimed Spy Masters series, including the best-selling The Best of Our Spies which is currently being developed as a television series. Prince of Spies was published in March 2020 and was followed by three more in the Prince series. His latest series is the Wolf Pack novels, with Agent in Berlin published in November 2021 and the second in the series due to be published in July 2022, Agent in Peril July 2022 and Agent in the Shadows in February 2023. Alex’s books have sold more than 500,000 copies.

Alex Gerlis

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1953: The Year of Living Dangerously

After World War Two, The Doomsday Clock was established by scientists to mark how close humanity is to nuclear annihilation, with midnight being the end of the world.

Roger Hermiston

In the Cold War’s 44-year history (accepting the general view that it started in 1947 and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1991), certain years have acquired special resonance, appearing to shape the uneasy East/West conflict more distinctly than the...

Checkmate in Berlin, by Giles Milton

The story of Berlin after the war is a remarkable one, so says the last British commandant of the city.

Major General Sir Robert Corbett

I suppose you could say that I was a survivor of the Cold War. All my military service, from a rude awakening as an 18-year-old recruit for the Irish Guards at Caterham, until I finally stepped off in 2004, was spent in its constantly threatening and frequently...

Winston & Randolph: Father and Son

Winston Churchill had complicated relationships, none more so than with his son, Randolph

Josh Ireland

Winston & Randolph Winston Churchill loved and depended on his wife, Clementine, he adored his three daughters Diana, Sarah and Mary, but he was obsessed with his only son Randolph. Nevertheless, Randolph occupies a curious place in the Churchill legend. He buzzes...