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Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess (Paperback)
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Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess (Paperback)
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Winner of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award. 'One
of the great biographies of 2015.' The Times Fully updated edition
including recently released information. A Guardian Book of the
Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on Sunday
Biography of the Year. Daily Mail Biography of Year. Spectator Book
of the Year. BBC History Book of the Year. 'A remarkable and
definitive portrait ' Frederick Forsyth 'Andrew Lownie's biography
of Guy Burgess, Stalin's Englishman ... shrewd, thorough,
revelatory.' William Boyd 'In the sad and funny Stalin's
Englishman, [Lownie] manages to convey the charm as well as the
turpitude.' Craig Brown 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.
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