Compared across 2 stores. Prices are checked against each store and labelled with when. Store links may earn us a commission. As an Amazon Associate, Deal.ai earns from qualifying purchases.
It checks today's price at every store, compares the alternatives and answers in about a minute.
Nigel West presents the MI5 confession of Anthony Blunt, the art historian and Cambridge Five member who spied for the NKVD from inside British intelligence. The book centers on Arthur Martin's 1964 interrogation and the immunity deal that got Blunt to talk. It suits readers of counterintelligence history who want the mole's own admissions rather than a broad survey. Against general Cambridge Five accounts, it is narrower and source-driven, trading narrative sweep for the interrogation record.
Availability unknown
As an Amazon Associate, Deal.ai earns from qualifying purchases.
Out of stock
Store links may earn us a commission.
Lowest price we've seen: $39.95 on Nov 15 at Amazon. Tracked across 1 store since Nov 15.
This book presents the declassified transcripts of the tapes MI5 made of Professor Sir Anthony Blunt's confession in 1964. Nigel West edited them, with help from Arthur Martin, Blunt and other participants, to produce an analysis of what the book calls Britain's greatest espionage scandal.
Martin was MI5's most successful molehunter. He had investigated the Cambridge spy ring since the defections of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean in May 1951. In April 1964 he gained the leverage to persuade Blunt to confess. Blunt was a celebrated art historian, director of London University's Courtauld Institute and Keeper of the Queen's Pictures.
The book covers Blunt's recruitment by Stalin's NKVD in the 1930s while at Cambridge. It also covers his entry into MI5 in 1940, where he had access to classified material such as Allied war plans and counterespionage operations. Blunt then revealed his network's members and activities, dating back to 1936.
