Stalin's Englishman : Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge spy ring

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"Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of The Cambridge Spies--Maclean, Philby, Blunt--brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passe...

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British Broadcasting Corporation Biography

Burgess, Guy, 1911-1963

Espionage, Soviet Great Britain History

Great Britain Relations Soviet Union

Great Britain. Foreign Office Biography

Intelligence service Great Britain History 20th century

Soviet Union Relations Great Britain

Spies Great Britain Biography

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ISBN:

9781250100993
1250100992

Edition:

First U.S. edition

Description:

xiv, 433 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Contents:

Prologue: Full circle : Saturday, 5 October 1963
Beginnings
Schooldays
Eton again
Cambridge undergraduate
Cambridge postgraduate
The third man
London
The BBC
Russian recruiter
Jack and Peter
British Agent
Meeting Churchill
Section D
"Rather confidential work"
Bentinck Street
Back at the BBC
MI5 agent handler
Propagandist
The news department
Relationships
Back at the centre of power
Russian controls
Settling down
The information research department
The far East department
Disciplinary action
Washington
Disgrace
Sent home
Back in Britain
The final week
The bird has flown
The story breaks
Repercussions
Petrov
The missing diplomats reappear
First steps
"I'm very glad I came"
An Englishman abroad
Visitors
"I'm a communist, of course, but I'm a British communist, and I hate Russia!"
Summing up
Appendix

LCCN:

2016028503

Control Number:

1870565

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