Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
- ISBN-10
- 0007516681
- ISBN-13
- 9780007516681
- Series
- Enemies Within
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 672
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-01-25
- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Author
- Richard Davenport-Hines
Description
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.
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Other editions
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- 2014-09-16
- 336 pages
- Paperback
- Simon and Schuster
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- 2013-09-03
- 336 pages
- Ebook
- Simon and Schuster
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- 2008-10-01
- 368 pages
- Ebook
- Yale University Press
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- 2001
- 256 pages
- Paperback
- University of Illinois Press
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