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Finished Triumph: Collected Stories by Lizzie Harwood as well as Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky by Oleg Gordievsky (natch).
Harwood's were less like short stories than vignettes; powerful, and engaging writing, though. I was a bit overwhelmed trying to go from scene to scene, always a female first-person POV but oftentimes entirely different stories; so I switched between her book and Gordievsky's.
Harwood's offering was, I believe a free one, designed to advertise some of her novel-length books, some of the characters of which were featured here.
Gordievsky's was the more interesting to me: he was a KGB agent who began working for the British in the 70's and early '80s. Once his cover was blown and the KGB interrogated him, he managed to escape to England and continued to give the West crucial insight into the operations and mindsets of the Soviet Union and the KGB in particular.
Now starting 1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry by Andrew Bridgeford.
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