Guy Burgess : the spy who knew everyone /: the spy who knew everyone. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.