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The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle

Autor Geoff Andrews
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 sep 2015
James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies. As both mentor and friend to Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and others, Klugmann was the man who manipulated promising recruits deemed ripe for conversion to the communist cause. This perception of him was reinforced following the release of his MI5 file and the disclosure of Soviet intelligence files in Moscow, which revealed he played the key part in the recruitment of John Cairncross, the 'fifth man', as well as his pivotal war-time role in the Special Operations Executive in shifting Churchill and the allies to support Tito and the communist partisans in Yugoslavia. In this book, Geoff Andrews reveals Klugmann's story in full for the first time, uncovering the motivations, conflicts and illusions of those drawn into the world of communism and the sacrifices they made on its behalf.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781784531669
ISBN-10: 1784531669
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 12 bw integrated
Dimensiuni: 155 x 226 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Geoff Andrews is a historian in the politics department of The Open University, UK. He has written widely on the history of political ideas and movements and twentieth century British and Italian politics.

Cuprins

Prologue1. Hampstead: Bourgeois Beginnings2. Outsider at Gresham's3. A Cambridge Communist 4. Organising the Movement 5. Mentor and Talent Spotter6. The Making of a Communist Intellectual7. Working for the Comintern 8. The Professional Revolutionary9. The Spy Circle10. The Reluctant Spy11. A Communist Goes to War12. Comrade or Conspirator?13. Great Expectations14. Cold War Intellectual15. Trials and Tribulations16. The Party Functionary: 1956 and After17. Lost Generation18. Late Spring19. Hopes and Fears20. A Good Jesuit

Recenzii

A fascinating study of the intellectual and moral ossification that can result from an addiction to dogma. Geoff Andrews has done his research.well-written and thought-provoking account.
Geoff Andrews has done a fine job in piecing together the story. This fascinating biography illuminates the world of the mid-twentieth century Communist intellectuals: the idealism that motivated them, and the choices that they had to make.
In his illuminating, sympathetic, but far from sycophantic, biography of Klugmann, a leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Geoff Andrews paints a picture of a troubled intellectual who sacrificed his integrity through rigid devotion to the party.
fascinating...admirably detailed account... Andrews writes well...Andrews paints a very human picture of Klugmann...impressive book.
a complete picture of a truly dedicated revolutionary...extensive and meticulously researched...[Andrews] illuminates the complete story of a brilliant intellectual who gave his life to the Communist Party...fascinating...an important work about a generation that was like no other and a man who was a giant of his time. --
This quite unapologetic and exciting biography rescues James Klugmann from the condescension of posterity and from those of us who regarded him (mistakenly) as simply a dull British communist apparatchik. By strongly contextualizing Klugmann's life, Geoff Andrews gives us a fuller picture of the man, an unswerving communist, a friend of the Cambridge spies, a recruit of Soviet intelligence, a senior SOE operative (under the nose of MI5), a great supporter of Tito before joining in Stalin's fatwa, and, yes, also an ultra-loyalist communist hack.