Stalin's Englishman - Guy Burgess

Condition: New

Award winning biography on the British Russian Spy. 433 pages, very slight shelfwear.

'A masterly biography...a more compelling page-turner than any spy thriller.' Mail on Sunday

'A magnificent biography... Burgess has all the right ingredients for an engrossing story and Lownie, who has spent 30 years researching this biography, makes the most of it... a narrative as gripping as a thriller.' Daily Express

'Exhaustive research, elegant construction, psychological acuity, wit and the necessary sympathy. Lownie shows that Burgess's treason was far more significant than had been thought.' Spectator Books of the Year

'Captures the ambiguity Burgess - always inspires.' Daily Mail Biography of the Year

'Awful human beings make for splendid biographies, and the traitor Guy Burgess was a terrible specimen of humanity... brought back to vivid life by this well-researched, finely written book.' The Times Best Biographies of the Year.