'A remarkable book ... which reminds us of something we should never forget -- how a few outstanding Britons and Americans helped to preserve the peace, security and freedom of the West in the harshest years of the Cold War' -- Oleg Gordievsky ' "Spies Beneath Berlin" delivers surprise after surprise, and makes all previous accounts of of this amazing story quite obsolete. It's a real page turner too -- I read it virtually at a sitting' -- Len Deighton 'Impeccably convincing ... as exciting as a good detective story' -- M.R.D. Foot, The Spectator

David Stafford, a former diplomat, has written extensively on intelligence history and is the author of, among other books, 'The Silent Game' and 'Churchill and the Civil Service'. He is Project Director of the Centre for Second World War Studies at the University of Edinburgh.