The Shadow Man

At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle

Geoff Andrews (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-40523-3 (ISBN)

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James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies. As both mentor and friend to Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and others, Klugmann was the man who manipulated promising recruits deemed ripe for conversion to the communist cause. This perception of him was reinforced following the release of his MI5 file and the disclosure of Soviet intelligence files in Moscow, which revealed he played a key part in the recruitment of John Cairncross, the 'fifth man', and had a pivotal war-time role in the Special Operations Executive, helping shift Churchill and the allies to support Tito and the communist partisans in Yugoslavia. In this book, Geoff Andrews reveals Klugmann's story in full for the first time, uncovering the motivations, conflicts and illusions of those drawn into the world of communism - and the sacrifices they made on its behalf.

Geoff Andrews is an historian and biographer who has written widely on the history of political ideas and movements and twentieth century British and Italian politics. He is Senior Lecturer in Politics at The Open University and author of The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle (2015) and Not a Normal Country: Italy After Berlusconi (2005).

Prologue

1. Hampstead: Bourgeois Beginnings

2. Outsider at Gresham’s

3. A Cambridge Communist

4. Organising the Movement

5. Mentor and Talent Spotter

6. The Making of a Communist Intellectual

7. Working for the Comintern

8. The Professional Revolutionary

9. The Spy Circle

10. The Reluctant Spy

11. A Communist Goes to War

12. Comrade or Conspirator?

13. Great Expectations

14. Cold War Intellectual

15. Trials and Tribulations

16. The Party Functionary: 1956 and After

17. Lost Generation

18. Late Spring

19. Hopes and Fears

20. A Good Jesuit

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2023
Zusatzinfo	12 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-350-40523-X / 135040523X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-40523-3 / 9781350405233
Zustand	Neuware