Stalin's Englishman: the lives of Guy Burgess
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 manipulat...
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| Summary: | 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. 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, colourful, tragi-comic wonder |
| Physical Description: | xii, 427 Seiten, 24 ungezählte Bildseiten Illustrationen |
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Preface vii
Prologue: Full Circle: Saturday; 5 October 1963 xi
1. Beginnings I
2. Schooldays 8
3. Eton Again 16
4. Cambridge Undergraduate 26
5. Cambridge Postgraduate 39
6. The Third Man 50
7. London 57
8. The BBC 66
9. Russian Recruiter 73
10. Jack and Peter 79
11. British Agent 86
12. Meeting Churchill 91
13. Section D 97
14. ‘Rather Confidential Work’ 104
15. Bentinck Street 114
16. Back at the BBC 123
17. MI 5 Agent Handler 128
18. Propagandist 134
19. The News Department 144
20. Relationships 150
21. Back at the Centre of Power 155
22. Russian Controls 163
23. Settling Down 168
24. The Information Research Department 173
25. The Far East Department 182
26. Disciplinary Action 188
27. Washington 198
28. Disgrace 210
29. Sent Home 217
30. Back in Britain 224
31. The Final Week 232
32. The Bird Has Flown 238
33. The Story Breaks 247
34. Repercussions 257
35. Petrov 266
36. The Missing Diplomats Reappear 271
37. First Steps 281
38. ‘I’m Very Glad I Came’ 286
39. An Englishman Abroad 294
40. Visitors 300
41. ‘Гт a communist, of course, but Гт a British
communist, and I hate Russia!’ 309
42. Summing Up 319
Appendix 331
Notes on Sources 334
Selected Bibliography 390
Acknowledgements 407
Picture Acknowledgements 411
Index 413
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