Guy Burgess : the spy who knew everyone /: the spy who knew everyone. (2016)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Guy Burgess : the spy who knew everyone /: the spy who knew everyone. (2016)
- Main Title:
- Guy Burgess : the spy who knew everyone
- Further Information:
- Note: Stewart Purvis and Jeff Hulbert.
- Authors:
- Purvis, Stewart
Hulbert, Jeff - Contents:
- Introduction -- 1. 'A normal, healthy, English boy': a disrupted edication, 1911-30 -- 2. 'A real rapscallion': a scholarship student goes rogue, 1930-36 -- 3. 'Mr. Burgess is away today': serving more than one master, 1936-38 -- 4. 'I am anxious to appoint a Mr Guy Burgess': British Intelligence embraces a KGB spy, 1938-42 -- 5. 'Everyone under the Sun': networking at Westminster, 1941-44 -- 6. 'An important promotion that can be put to valuable use': properly established in the establishment, 1944-50 -- 7. 'Good reason to hope he would make a useful career': crucial decisions at the Foreign Office and MI5, 1950-51 -- 8. 'This peculiarly British field of clounter-espionage: and then there were five spies, or was it six or seven? 1951 onwards -- 9. 'I had no idea how much I was loathed': settling into the USSR, 1951-56 -- 10. 'I would rather like to go back to England': decline and death, 1956-63 -- 11. 'Burgess is, of course, Brigadier Brilliant': towards the truth, 1951-2016.
- Publisher Details:
- London : Biteback Publishing
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white), portraits (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 327.12092
Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History
Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Espionnage soviétique -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Espions -- URSS -- Biographies
Espionage, Soviet
Spies
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies
Biographies - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781785900136
1785900137 - Related ISBNs:
- 1849549133
9781849549134 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.772106
- Ingest File:
- 19_017.xml