![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]() ‘In the sad and funny Stalin’s Englishman, manages to convey the charm as well as the turpitude.’ Craig Brown ‘Andrew Lownie’s biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin’s Englishman … shrewd, thorough, revelatory.’ William Boyd ‘A remarkable and definitive portrait ‘ Frederick Forsyth ‘One of the great biographies of 2015.’ The Timesįully updated edition including recently released information.Ī Guardian Book of the Year. Winner of the St Ermin’s Intelligence Book of the Year Award. ![]()
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