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

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

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Author / Creator:	Lownie, Andrew, author.
Edition:	First U.S. edition.
Imprint:	New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016. ©2015
Description:	xiv, 433 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Burgess, Guy, -- 1911-1963. Burgess, Guy, -- 1911-1963. British Broadcasting Corporation -- Biography. Great Britain. -- Foreign Office -- Biography. British Broadcasting Corporation. Great Britain. -- Foreign Office. Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography. Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History. Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Espionage, Soviet. Intelligence service. International relations. Spies. Great Britain -- Relations -- Soviet Union. Soviet Union -- Relations -- Great Britain. Great Britain. Soviet Union. Biographies. Biographies. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10900327

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ISBN:	9781250100993 1250100992 9781250101013
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 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. Even 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, colorful, tragi-comic wonder"--

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