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The Cambridge Five: A Captivating Guide to the Russian Spies in Britain Who Passed Information to the Soviet Union During World War II

Name: The Cambridge Five: A Captivating Guide to the Russian Spies in Britain Who Passed Information to the Soviet Union During World War II
Brand: Captivating History
SKU: 9781647481506
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Captivating History

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Hardcover

Book Category:

Education, History

Book Subcategory:

History, Europe, Russia

Book Topic:

Great Britain

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Release Date:

2019-12-22

ISBN 13:

9781647481506

Weight:

0.55 lbs

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9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 inches

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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cambridge Five, then keep reading...

During the poverty-stricken years of the Great Depression, when Britain's financial markets plummeted and the poor and wealthy alike doubted the economic systems in which they participated, the potential of one political ideal shone like no other: Communism. Young intellectuals from the country's very best schools discussed the premise of labor-value versus wealth-value, and a great many of them became card-carrying members of the Communist Party in Britain.

It was exactly the kind of hunting ground the Soviet Union needed to recruit high-level agents to their cause. Over the course of the early 1930s, five students of Cambridge University were handpicked by Soviet agents and instructed to use their status as educated members of the British elite to serve the U.S.S.R.

Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, and John Cairncross accepted the offer and in doing so changed the course of WWII and the Cold War. Their actions were not discovered until the 1950s, long after the war was finished and the damage--or achievements, depending which side you were on--had already been done.

In The Cambridge Five: A Captivating Guide to the Russian Spies in Britain Who Passed Information to the Soviet Union During World War II, you will discover topics such as

The Undeniable Attraction of Marxism
Students of Prestige
Anthony Blunt: Teacher, Lover, Recruiter
Burgess: A Mole Within the BBC
Maclean and the Spanish Civil War
World War II: Espionage Between Allies
Enigma, Bombe, and Colossus
Espionage and the Battle of Kursk
Project Venona
Allied Insurgents in Albania
The Downfall of the Cambridge Five
The Downfall of the Cambridge Five
And much, much more

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