Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain

✍ Scribed by Davenport-Hines, Richard

• Book ID: 109637381
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780007516674

✦ Synopsis

What pushed Britons Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? Looking at the revelations that rocked the intelligence world to its core, Richard Davenport-Hines returns with a sharp analysis of the infamous Cambridge Five and the way they betrayed national interest, loyalty and ideologies for personal gain. Traitors follows the Cambridge Five (Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean, and Philby) alongside a new cast of characters who who were collateral damage to the revelations, namely Victor Rothschild and Archie Clark Kerr (Lord Inverchapel). As well as exploring the scandals associated with these men, this book provides a rational analysis of why and how these men were corrupted by foreign agents and what this cost Britain and its allies. The Cambridge Spies have attracted extensive interest but the allegations of Establishment cover-ups and high-level corruption never lose topicality. As Cambridge undergraduates, these hedonistic, addiction-riddled bright...