HITLER'S PEOPLE -Richard J. Evans

A series of essays on various people in Nazi Germany, from Hitler down to camp guards.

Each essay is standalone, a benefit is there is very little repetition .  A very good overview with a conclusion that stands up.

Recommended.
 

THE SPY WHO WAS LEFT OUT IN THE COLD - Tim Tate

Interesting but not riveting.
 

MASK OF TREACHERY -John Costello

 

Supposedly a biography of Anthony Blunt, but what we get is a very detailed history of the Cambridge spy's as a whole. Very detailed, very interesting.

THE MAN WHO WAS M The Life of Maxwell Knight - Anthony Masters

Not great writing, but it has some interesting snippets about MI5.  Knight himself was a cot case but as the entire organization was full of public school boy fools he didn't really stick out
 

TO CATCH A SPY - Tim Tate

 

I love seeing politicians made to look foolish, but in this case they did it themselves.  I knew Thatcher was arrogant & I've been a fan, but I never knew she made decisions like those re-counted here that proved her, on this matter at least, to be nothing less than stupid

KARLA'S CHOICE -Nick Harkaway

 

Some things are much better off left alone, George Smiley is one of them.  This isn't terrible but its not close to what his father wrote on his worst day

THE DROWNED - John Banville

 

Absolutely beautiful writing.  As always nothing marvellous in the mystery , but the writing is superb, worth the price alone for its descriptions of the Irish landscape.