Phillip Deery is Emeritus Professor of History at Victoria University. He has published extensively in the fields of cold war history, intelligence and security studies, communism and the labour movement.
Books & arts
The spies who went into the cold
Phillip Deery
9 November 2023
Calder Walton’s lively global survey takes in a century of espionage
Books & arts
Eyes spy
Phillip Deery
9 November 2022
Harmony and hostility exist side by side in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network
Books & arts
How does one get used to it?
Phillip Deery
1 April 2021
Books | Sheila Fitzpatrick’s new book tells a remarkable cold war migration story
Books & arts
Soldiers, spies and Soviets
Phillip Deery
7 August 2020
Books | Inept and corrupt, Australia’s earliest security organisations were ill-equipped for emerging threats
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