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The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire

The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire

A persuasive shift of focus onto the victims, one that reveals the human cost of Kim Philby’s leaking of operations behind the Iron Curtain, distinguishes a new examination of the Cambridge Five.

Consider a boy. His name is Vasilli Ivanovich Bardeish. He has a weak chin, and jug ears which stick out sideways from his head. In May 1951, he is 22 years old. Vasilli has had the great misfortune to be born in Ukraine in 1929. To two vicious totalitarian dictators...

SpyMasters, by Antonia Senior

SpyMasters, by Antonia Senior

The editor of a new anthology introduces the collection.

In the years just before the First World War, a boy was growing up in Imperial India. He was obstinate and full of life. Still a toddler, he chatted to the servants in Hindustani. His father nicknamed him Kim, after the spy hero of Rudyard Kipling’s novel, who could...

Spies, by Calder Walton

Spies, by Calder Walton

Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West sounds a klaxon for the future.

Russian spies have moved into cyberspace. Their digital fingerprint is on the 2016 American elections, and all over the cultural wars. They find existing cracks in Western discourse, around Brexit or Black Lives Matter, for example, and seek to rip them still wider....