For most of the cold war, Mr Pipes was a lonely ploughman.

ECONOMIST: Sovietology

Most of the book is about Mr Pipes's post-war life in America, loved austerely but gratefully.

ECONOMIST: Sovietology

Or was it when he slept in the top bunk of a World War II troopship that had asbestos-clad pipes rattling 2 feet above his head?

FORBES: Double-Dippers