Agent Molière: The Life of John Cairncross, the Fifth Man of the Cambridge Spy Circle

ISBN-13: 9781788311304 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 312 str.

Geoff Andrews

Opis

The discovery of Cairncross's activities in the late-1980s and the story of his confession revealed here in full for the first time.

Recenzje

Extremely well-researched ... Both fascinating and exciting in equal measure. The Wee Review

Spis treści

Prologue: 'The Chase'Chapter 1: A Scottish EducationChapter 2: From Glasgow to GermanyChapter 3: A Political AwakeningChapter 4: CambridgeChapter 5: The Foreign OfficeChapter 6: Agent MoliereChapter 7: AppeasementChapter 8: A Political Career BeginsChapter 9: Bletchley ParkChapter 10: Enter Graham GreeneChapter 11: Cold War and ResignationChapter 12: An Italian EscapeChapter 13: Professor CairncrossChapter 14: Confession and Exile (Again)Chapter 15: Hot AutumnChapter 16: The 'Fifth Man'Chapter 17: The Human FactorEpilogue: 'fact and Fiction in the Life of John Cairncross'

O autorze

Geoff Andrews is an historian and biographer who has written widely on the history of political ideas and movements and twentieth century British and Italian politics. He is Senior Lecturer in Politics at The Open University and author of The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle (2015) and Not a Normal Country: Italy After Berlusconi (2005).