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Pages 154-175 | Published online: 02 Jan 2008
 

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Charles A. Ruud and Sergei A. Stepanov, Fontanka 16: The Tsars’ Secret Police (Phoenix Mill, Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1999). Pp.ix + 393, 16pp. photographs, biblio., index. £20. ISBN 0–7509–2159–5.

E. O'Halpin, Defending Ireland: The Irish State and its Enemies since 1922 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Pp.xvi + 353, bibliog., index. £25. ISBN 0–19–820426–4.

Gabriel Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999). Pp.408, bibliog., index. £25/529.95. ISBN 0–300–07792–0.

W.J.R. Gardner, Decoding History: The Battle of the Atlantic and Ultra (London: Macmillan Press, 1999). Pp.v + 263, glossary, illus., tables, notes, index. $45. ISBN 0–333–69303–5.

Robin Denniston, Churchill's Secret War. Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey 1942–1944 (Phoenix Mill, Stroud: Sutton Publishers, 1999). Pp.223, index, 7 appendices. £12.99 (paper). ISBN 0–750–9–2329–6 and ISBN ‐1219–7 (cloth, 1996, £25).

British Security Coordination, The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940–45. Introduction by Nigel West (New York: Fromm International, 1999). Pp.539, index. £30/$35. ISBN 0–88064–236‐X.

Michael J. Hogan, A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945–1954 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Pp.xii + 525, bibliog., index. £25/$34.95. ISBN 0–521–64044‐X.

Rufina Philby with Hayden Peake and Mikhail Lyubimov, The Private Life of Kim Philby, The Moscow Years (London: Little Brown, 1999). Pp.464, bibliog., index. £18.99. ISBN 0–316–64779–9.

Ron Westrum, Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake (Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute Press, 1999). Pp.304, 18 b/w photos, 6 line drawings, index. $32.95. ISBN 1–557–509514.

D. Vincent, The Culture of Secrecy: Britain 1832–1998 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Pp.364, bibliog., index. £25. ISBN 0–19–820307–1.

Richard J. Aldrich (ed.), Espionage, Security and Intelligence in Britain 1945–1970 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998). Pp.xxii + 262, bibliog., index. £35 (cloth); £13.99 (paper). ISBN 0–7190–4955–5 and 4956–3.

Hugh Beach and Nadine Gurr, Flattering the Passions: Or, The Bomb and Britain's Bid for a World Role (London: I.B. Tauris, 2000). Pp.279, no index. £29.50. ISBN 1–86064–168–7.

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