Stalin's Englishman : the lives of Guy Burgess /
by Lownie, Andrew.
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BookPublisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2015Description: xii, 427 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781473627369 (hbk.) :; 1473627362 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 920 BURSubject(s): Burgess, Guy, 1911-1963 | Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography | Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Biography | BiographySummary: 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.
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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.
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