The Shadow Man
At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
Published on 5. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-350-40523-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 GuardianMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
12 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
366 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-40523-3 (9781350405233)
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09/2015
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Person
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).
Content
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
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