Stalin's Englishman

Andrew Lownie

Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of 'The Cambridge Spies' - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - all 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 passed to his Russian handlers. In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life of drunken philandering did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service.

Author(s): Lownie, Andrew
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 02/06/2016
Pagination: 448 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Hodder
Published By: Hodder
Book Classification: History|The Cold War|Biography: historical, political & military|Espionage & secret services
Dimensions: 198x130x30
Weight: 380
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781473627383