The shadow man
Subtitle: at the heart of the Cambridge spy circle
By: Geoff Andrews
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781784531669
Subjects: Soviet Espionage; History; Spies
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 the key part in the recruitment of John Cairncross, the 'fifth man', as well as his pivotal war-time role in the Special Operations Executive in shifting 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."--Bloomsbury publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Hampstead: Bourgeois Beginnings; title: Outsider at Gresham's; title: A Cambridge Communist; title: Organising the Movement; title: Mentor and Talent Spotter; title: The Making of a Communist Intellectual; title: Working for the Comintern; title: The Professional Revolutionary; title: The Spy Circle; title: The Reluctant Spy; title: A Communist Goes to War; title: Comrade or Conspirator?; title: Great Expectations; title: Cold War Intellectual; title: Trials and Tribulations; title: The Party Functionary: 1956 and After; title: A Lost Generation; title: Late Spring; title: Hopes and Fears; title: A Good Jesuit.