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The Shadow Man :At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
The Shadow Man :At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
hardback
Published:
7 September, 2015
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781784531669 |
| ISBN10 | 1784531669 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 560 g |
| Product Dimensions | 162 x 228 x 30 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
A fascinating study of the intellectual and moral ossification that can result from an addiction to dogma. Geoff Andrews has done his research…well-written and thought-provoking account. -- Alan Judd, Literary Review
Geoff Andrews has done a fine job in piecing together the story. This fascinating biography illuminates the world of the mid-twentieth century Communist intellectuals: the idealism that motivated them, and the choices that they had to make. -- Tom Buchanan, Professor of Modern British and European History, University of Oxford
In his illuminating, sympathetic, but far from sycophantic, biography of Klugmann, a leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Geoff Andrews paints a picture of a troubled intellectual who sacrificed his integrity through rigid devotion to the party. -- Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian
fascinating...admirably detailed account... Andrews writes well...Andrews paints a very human picture of Klugmann...impressive book. -- Ivor Gaber, Tribune
a complete picture of a truly dedicated revolutionary...extensive and meticulously researched...[Andrews] illuminates the complete story of a brilliant intellectual who gave his life to the Communist Party...fascinating...an important work about a generation that was like no other and a man who was a giant of his time. -- -- Bob Oram, Morning Star
This quite unapologetic and exciting biography rescues James Klugmann from the condescension of posterity and from those of us who regarded him (mistakenly) as simply a dull British communist apparatchik. By strongly contextualizing Klugmann's life, Geoff Andrews gives us a fuller picture of the man, an unswerving communist, a friend of the Cambridge spies, a recruit of Soviet intelligence, a senior SOE operative (under the nose of MI5), a great supporter of Tito before joining in Stalin's fatwa, and, yes, also an ultra-loyalist communist hack. -- Donald Sassoon, author of One Hundred Years of Socialism
Author's Bio
Geoff Andrews is a historian in the politics department of The Open University, UK. He has written widely on the history of political ideas and movements and twentieth century British and Italian politics.