Anthony Blunt
Subtitle: his lives
By: Miranda Carter.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 590
Subjects: Blunt, Anthony, -- 1907-1983.; Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Art historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Gay men -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "When Anthony Blunt died in 1983 be was a man about whom almost anything could be - and was - said. He was accused of everything from causing the death of Allied agents during the war to conspiring to suppress the reputation of British art; from blackmailing the Royal Family to paedophilia. He was a blank screen on which fantasy and delusion were projected."

"Anthony Blunt: His Lives reveals the man behind the myths and rumours: aesthete, communist, homosexual, spy. As Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute, Blunt's position as a stellar member of the Establishment had seemed utterly assured. But, in 1979, Margaret Thatcher exposed him as a former Soviet spy, and Blunt was stripped of his knighthood and became a figure of universal opprobrium."--Jacket.
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