Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘American Overthrow’ by Keir Giles

18 September 2026 by Martin Dewhirst Keir Giles, American Overthrow: Moscow’s Endgame in its Long War with Washington, Hurst Publishers, London, September 2026, 384pp,  ISBN 9781805266716 Hardback £18.99 WHO is the…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller: Soviet Espionage and the Cruelties of Stalin’s Gulags’ by Peter Buck Feller

20 February 2026 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller: Soviet Espionage and the Cruelties of Stalin’s Gulags by Peter Buck Feller, Bloomsbury Academic, New York,…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion that Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky’ by Simon Shuster

30 December 2025 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion that Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘Memories Beyond Moscow: Memoirs of a Benevolent Lepidopterist’ by Harald Lipman

18 February 2025 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews Harald Lipman, Memories Beyond Moscow: Memoirs of a Benevolent Lepidopterist, Mereo Books, Cirencester, 2024, xvi + 322 pp.  ISBN 978-1-86151-841-5. This…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West’ by David E. Sanger with Mary K. Brooks

3 January 2024 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger with Mary K.…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘Chevengur’ by Andrey Platonov, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler

16 September 2024 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews Chevengur by Andrey Platonov, translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler, Harvill Secker, London, 2023, xxiv + 567 pp.  ISBN…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘The Kremlin’s Confidant’ by David S. Tonge

27 August 2024 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews The Kremlin’s Confidant: How a British Naval Officer Suspended the Cold War: A biography of Lieutenant Commander Martin Packard MBE, by…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘The Last Days of Stalin’ by Joshua Rubenstein

18 September 2023 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews The Last Days of Stalin by Joshua Rubenstein, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2016/2017, £12.99, ISBN 978-0-300-22884-7 (pbk). Now…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘Pered litsom katastrofy’  [In the Face of Catastrophe], edited by Nikolai Plotnikov

11 September 2023 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews Pered listom katastrofy [In the Face of Catastrophe], ed. Nikolai Plotnikov, LIT Verlag, Münster, 2023, from €24,90, ISBN 978-3-643-15317-3. This is…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘How to end Russia’s War on Ukraine: Safeguarding Europe’s futures, and the dangers of a false peace,’ a report published by Chatham House

22 July 2023 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews How to end Russia’s War on Ukraine: Safeguarding Europe’s futures, and the dangers of a false peace, edited by James Nixey, published by…

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