Research Catalog

Title

Enemies within : communists, the Cambridge spies and the making of modern Britain / Richard Davenport-Hines.

Author

Davenport-Hines, R. P. T. (Richard Peter Treadwell), 1953-

Publication

London : William Collins, 2018.

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Details

Description

xxix, 642 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents,this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies. Enemies Within is a new history of the influence of Moscow on Britain told through the stories of those who chose to spy for the Soviet Union. It also challenges entrenched assumptions about abused trust, corruption and Establishment cover-ups that began with the Cambridge Five and the disappearance of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean on the night boat to Saint-Malo in 1951. In a book that is as intellectually thrilling as it is entertaining and illuminating, Richard Davenport-Hines traces the bonds between individuals, networks and organisations over generations to offer a study of character, both individual and institutional. At its core lie the operative traits of boarding schools, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Intelligence Division, Foreign Office, MI5, MI6 and Moscow Centre. Davenport-Hines tells many stories of espionage, counter-espionage and treachery. With its vast cope, ambition and scholarship, Enemies Within charts how the undermining of authority, the rejection of expertise and the suspicion of educational advantages began, and how these have transformed the social and political temper of modern Britain.

Subjects

• Intelligence service
• Espionage, Soviet
• Soviet Union
• Great Britain
• Spies
• Espionage, Soviet > Great Britain
• University of Cambridge Students
• Soviet Union > Relations > Great Britain
• 1900-1999
• Biography
• Philby, Kim, 1912-1988
• Blunt, Anthony, 1907-1983
• Great Britain > Relations > Soviet Union
• Intelligence service > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Spies > Great Britain > Biography
• International relations
• University of Cambridge
• Burgess, Guy, 1911-1963
• Cairncross, John
• Maclean, Donald, 1913-1983
• History
• Secret service > Great Britain
• Espionage, Soviet > Great Britain > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1. Rules of the game: The Moscow apparatus -- The intelligence division -- The Whitehall frame of mind -- The vigilance detectives -- The cipher spies -- The blueprint spie -- Part 2. Asking for trouble: The little clans -- The Cambridge cell -- The Vienna comrades -- The Ring of Five -- The people's war -- The desk officers -- The atomic spies -- The Cold War -- The alcoholic panic -- Part 3. Settling the score: The missing diplomats -- The Establishment -- The Brotherhood of Perverted Men -- The exiles -- The mole hunts.

Call Number

JFE 18-4894

ISBN

• 9780007516674
• 0007516673
• 9780008245566
• 0008245568
• 9780007516681
• 0007516681

LCCN

2017492267

OCLC

1022951361

Author

Davenport-Hines, R. P. T. (Richard Peter Treadwell), 1953- author.

Title

Enemies within : communists, the Cambridge spies and the making of modern Britain / Richard Davenport-Hines.

Publisher

London : William Collins, 2018.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 18-4894