Guy Burgess : the spy who knew everyone / Stewart Purvis and Jeff Hulbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Purvis, Stewart, author.

Hulbert, Jeff, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burgess, Guy, 1911-1963.

Burgess, Guy.

Espionage, Soviet--Great Britain--History.

Espionage, Soviet.

Spies--Soviet Union--Biography.

Spies.

History.

Soviet Union.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 470 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Biteback Publishing, 2016.

Contents:

1 'A Normal, Healthy, English Boy' 1

A disrupted education, 1911-30

2 'A Real Rapscallion' 15

A scholarship student goes rogue, 1930-36

3 'Mr Burgess is Away Today' 61

Serving more than one master, 1936-38

4 I Am 'Anxious to Appoint a Mr Guy Burgess' 103

British Intelligence embraces a KGB spy, 1938-41

5 'Everyone Under the Sun' 127

Networking at Westminster, 1941-44

6 'An Important Promotion That Can Be Put to Valuable Use' 175

Properly established in the establishment, 1944-50

7 'Good Reason to Hope he Would Make a Useful Career' 211

Crucial decisions at the Foreign Office and MI5, 1950-51

8 'This Peculiarly British Field of Counter-Espionage' 273

And then there were five spies, or was it six or seven? 1951 onwards

9 'I Had No Idea How Much I Was Loathed' 317

Settling into the USSR, 1951-56

10 'I Would Rather Like to Go Rack to England' 347

Decline and death, 1956-63

11 'Burgess Is, Of Course, Brigadier Brilliant' 393

Towards the truth, 1951-2016.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849549134

1849549133

OCLC:

923553744