The Lawn Road Flats - Spies, Writers and Artists

The untold story of the iconic Hampstead building, completed in 1934, which was home to a remarkable list of residents, including Henry Moore, Agatha Christie and Bauhaus-founder Walter Gropius, as well as those with dark secrets. Many Soviet spies, such as Arnold Deutsch, senior agent and controller of the infamous Cambridge spy ring, were drawn to the building.

List of contents

Foreword -
Prologue
Remembrance of Things Past, Hampstead Man among `The Modernists'
'National Planning For The Future' and the arrival of Walter Gropius
1935: `Art crystallises the emotions of an age.' Musicology, and the art of Espionage
Arnold Deutsch, Kim Philby and Austro-Marxism
The Isobar, Half Hundred Club and the arrival of SONYA
The Plot Thickens: Jurgen Kuczynski, Agatha Christie and Colletts Bookshop
Refugees, The Kuczynski Network, Churchill and Operation Barbarossa
Klaus Fuchs, Rothstein once more, and Charles Brasch
Vere Gordon Childe
The New Statesman, Ho Chi Minh, and The End of an Era
Epilogue
Bibliography

About the author

David Burke

Summary

The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers

Product details

• Authors: David Burke, Michael Middeke
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2014
• EAN: 9781843837831
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-783-1
• No. of pages: 309
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 167 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 630 g
• Illustrations: 31 b/w.
• Series: History of British Intelligence; The Boydell Press; History of British Intelligenc; History of British Intelligence; History of British Intelligenc
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)