Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess (häftad, eng)

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLER ENTITLED THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF YORK


''Fantastically detailed . . . a very quick, absorbing read.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
''Andrew Lownie''s biography of Guy Burgess is that rare achievement - a historical biography of considerable political and human complexity that is also a page turner.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
''Surely the definitive account of one of the country''s most prominent traitors.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 UnionAn 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 ServiceEven when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years.

Through interviews with more than a hundred people who knew Burgess personally, many of whom have never spoken about him before, and the discovery of hitherto secret files, Stalin''s Englishman brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing, chilling, colourful, tragi-comic wonder

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