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Agent Molière: The Life of John Cairncross, the Fifth Man of the Cambridge Spy Circle

Autor Geoff Andrews
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 feb 2020
The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone and was driven by his hostility to Fascism rather than to the promotion of Communism. During his war-time work at Bletchley Park, he passed documents to the Soviets which went on to influence the Battle of Kursk. Now, Geoff Andrews has access to the Cairncross papers and secrets, and has spoken to friends, relatives and former colleagues. A complex individual emerges - a scholar as well as a spy - whose motivations have often been misunderstood. After his resignation from the Civil Service, Cairncross moved to Italy and here he rebuilt his life as a foreign correspondent, editor and university professor. This gave him new circles and friendships - which included the writer Graham Greene - while he always lived with the fear that his earlier espionage would come to light. The full account of Cairncross's spying, his confession and his dramatic public exposure as the 'fifth man' will be told here for the first time, while also unveiling the story of his post-espionage life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788311304
ISBN-10: 1788311302
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 30 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

1st biography of Cairncross, the Fifth man of the Cambridge spy circle

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

Prologue: 'The Chase'Chapter 1: A Scottish EducationChapter 2: From Glasgow to GermanyChapter 3: A Political AwakeningChapter 4: CambridgeChapter 5: The Foreign OfficeChapter 6: Agent MoliereChapter 7: AppeasementChapter 8: A Political Career BeginsChapter 9: Bletchley ParkChapter 10: Enter Graham GreeneChapter 11: Cold War and ResignationChapter 12: An Italian EscapeChapter 13: Professor CairncrossChapter 14: Confession and Exile (Again)Chapter 15: Hot AutumnChapter 16: The 'Fifth Man'Chapter 17: The Human FactorEpilogue: 'fact and Fiction in the Life of John Cairncross'

Recenzii

Extremely well-researched ... Both fascinating and exciting in equal measure.
Compelling. Geoff Andrews's research is extensive and exemplary.
[Cairncross] lived in a sort of self-imposed exile on the Continent, eking out an existence as a jobbing writer and translator. When he was finally unmasked as the Fifth Man, nobody really seemed to care. [Andrews] has set out to remedy this.
Andrews rightly emphasizes the range of Cairncross's literary talents. He would have made a successful, though highly argumentative, full-time academic, and was a formidable linguist.
In Agent Moliere, respected historian Geoff Andrews provides a well-researched and absorbing account of Cairncross's life from his passing on of secret documents to the Russians during World War II to his later life as a university professor in Italy and his eventual unveiling as the 'fifth man'. A must for all armchair spies.
Geoff Andrews, an Open University politics lecturer, throws new light on this mystery [of how John Cairncross found himself in the pay of Moscow's spy masters].
Geoff Andrews brilliantly captures the essence of the unlikely "fifth man" in the notorious Cambridge spy ring, exploding the myths surrounding John Cairncross. His meticulous research paints a picture of an exceptional scholar from a humble background uncomfortable in the corridors of the Whitehall establishment. As Andrews astutely comments, Cairncross was "incapable of subscribing to any kind of orthodoxy". Agent Molière is a refreshing and most welcome biography which blows away the cobwebs left by traditional spy writers.
A thorough and thoughtful exploration of the complex life and personality of John Cairncross. This is the book we have been waiting for that rounds off the epic story of the Cambridge Spies.