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This brilliant psychological examination of the infamous Cambridge art-historian-turned-spy reveals the multiple masks worn by the Cold War’s most notorious traitor. From young member of the Bloomsbury circle to left-wing intellectual, from closeted homosexual ascending to the Establishment to object of public denunciation by Margaret Thatcher, the arc of Blunt’s life is at once a deeply nuanced account of fifty years in the British power elite and an astonishing history of one of the century’s greatest deceits.
Traces the life of Blunt, art historian and Russian spy, explains how he became involved in espionage and discusses his relationship to Kim Philby.
First published under title: The fourth man.Reprint. Originally published: New York : Time Books, 1981.Includes index.
Through previously unpublished documents, this volume revisits the public furore 40 years ago when the British Academy chose not to expel from its Fellowship the eminent art historian, Anthony Blunt, who had been exposed as a former Soviet spy. David Cannadine portrays the main characters in this episode which rocked the academic establishment.
Om de engelske kontraspioner Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Harold Philby (Kim) og "Basil" ("the fifth man")
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Each letter of the alphabet accompanies a full-page picture puzzle containing objects that begin with that letter.