Stalin's Englishman - The Lives of Guy Burgess

@2@@20@Winner of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award. @21@@3@@2@@20@'One of the great biographies of 2015.' @18@The Times@19@@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@Fully updated edition including recently released information. @21@@3@@2@@20@A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year. Daily Mail @21@@20@Biography of Year. @21@@20@Spectator Book of the Year. BBC History Book of the Year. @21@@3@@2@@20@'A remarkable and definitive portrait ' Frederick Forsyth@21@@3@@2@@20@'Andrew Lownie's biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin's Englishman ... shrewd, thorough, revelatory.' @18@William Boyd@19@@21@@3@@2@@20@'In the sad and funny @18@Stalin's Englishman@19@, [Lownie] manages to convey the charm as well as the turpitude.' @18@Craig Brown@19@@21@@3@@2@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.@3@@2@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.@3@@2@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, @18@Stalin's Englishman@19@ brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing, chilling, colourful, tragi-comic wonder.@3@...

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Lownie, Lownie Andrew
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.06.2016
• EAN: 9781473627383
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-2738-3
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 199 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Espionage & secret services, Espionage and secret services, Biography: historical, political and military, USSR, Soviet Union, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era