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Waterstones picks The Stay Behinds for its summer campaign

Notebook | 25% off pre-orders this week

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Johan Wennström
Jul 21, 2026
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I’m pleased to share that Waterstones, a leading UK bookstore chain, has selected The Stay Behinds: Sweden’s Cold War Guardians as part of its summer campaign. This week only, the book—along with forthcoming works by, among others, Ben Macintyre and Angus Donald—is available at a 25% pre-order discount using the code SUMMER26.

The book will be released (without a quarter off the price) on September 8 in the US and September 10 in the UK, in hardback, e-book and audio editions. I’m betting it will be one of the most talked-about history books this autumn.

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