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

"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 other...

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Main Author: Lownie, Andrew (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Burgess, Guy, > 1911-1963.
British Broadcasting Corporation > Biography.
Great Britain. > Foreign Office > Biography.
Spies > Great Britain > Biography.
Espionage, Soviet > Great Britain > History.
Intelligence service > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Relations > Great Britain.
Biographies.
Table of 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.

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