STALIN’S ENGLISHMAN: THE LIVES OF GUY BURGESS
Book ID/图书代码： 00530016B90030
English Summary/英文概要： Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of ’The Cambridge Spies’ - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers.
In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess’s chaotic personal life of drunken philandering did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years.
Through interviews with more than a hundred people who knew Burgess personally, many of whom have never spoken about him before, and the discovery of hitherto secret files, Stalin’s Englishman brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing, chilling, colourful, tragi-comic wonder.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 所有那些在30年代被招募，随后又背叛了自己的祖国投奔苏维埃的才华横溢的年轻人中，Guy Burgess是所有“剑桥间谍”中最重要、最复杂以及最迷人的那一个。对很多人来说，他是投入的、迷人的伴侣，但对很多其他人来说，他完全不吸引人、十分无情，善于操纵别人。Burgess从学者的身份出发，一路走过英国广播公司，英国外交部，英国军情五处，军情六处，接触了无数机密文件，并将那些文件传递给他的俄罗斯的同伴。
本书是关于这个人的第一本完整的传记。Andrew Lownie向我们展示了Burgess混乱、醉酒、打情骂俏的个人生活并没有阻止他纵横英国情报机构并不断地背叛他的祖国。甚至当他受到怀疑以后，由于与有影响力的人物（包括丘吉尔）建立起十分密切的个人关系，他传说中的魅力使他间谍的一面很多年都没有被暴露。
本书采访了超过百名与Burgess有个人关联的人物，其中许多人以前从来没有谈过他，再加上很多迄今都是机密的档案被发现了，本书出色地展现了Guy Burgess的一生。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：很多生动的细节来自不同的声音、观点和国籍……本书的阅读体验无比精彩。（The Times）
如此详尽的研究，并吸收了多家观点，本书既是第一本完整的传记研究，也可能呈现了当年生活的本来样貌。（New Statesman）
经过认真研究写成的传记......一个惊人的研究。--Sunday Times）
复杂，充满启示：一本比间谍小说还好看的传记。（Sunday Telegraph）
An abundance of vivid detail from many different voices, viewpoints and nationalities...Stalin’s Englishman is a matchless and splendidly exciting read. (The Times)
This exhaustively researched and absorbing book, the first full biographical study and likely to remain the definitive life. (New Statesman)
A meticulously researched biography...an astonishing piece of research. (Sunday Times)
Complicated, revelatory: a superb biography more riveting than a spy novel. (Sunday Telegraph)
As one of this country’s foremost literary agents, Andrew Lownie certainly knows what makes a good book, and in Stalin’s Englishman he has delivered one of his own - many times over. (Independent)
Not every question has been answered, but most have, and those that remain probably never will be. (Independent on Sunday)
In this meticulous biography of the most colourful of the quintet, espionage expert Lownie argues convincingly that Burgess - often seen as a clownish buffoon - was the key member of the ring, and his treachery the most damaging. (Observer)
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)
Scrupulous and comprehensive. (The Week)
Is there anything significant left to say about members of the Cambridge spy ring, Moscow’s ’magnificent five’? The answer, judging by this book, is a resounding yes. (Guardian)
A masterly biography. (Mail on Sunday)
’The most comprehensive, readable and faultlessly researched account of one of Britain’s most notorious (but colorful) traitors. Now we know just about all there is to know about this wretched man who betrayed friends, family, country... the lot!’ (Nigel West, author of The Secret War For The Falklands)
One of the most important intelligence books in many years. (Eye Spy Magazine)
A fascinating story, racily recounted. (The Oldie)
About the Author/作者介绍： Andrew Lownie一直从事图书买卖、出版工作，也是一名记者。1988年后，他开始经营自己的文学机构，专长历史和传记。1997年，他创办了“传记俱乐部”，为传记作者大声疾呼。直到最近，他一直是“传记国际组织”的董事会成员。
他出生在肯尼亚，在百慕大群岛长大。如今，他住在伦敦的西敏寺附近。他对于间谍、苏格兰和修正主义特别感兴趣。
Andrew Lownie has been a bookseller, publisher, journalist and since 1988 has run his own literary agency specialising in history and biography. In 1997 he founded the Biographers Club to give a voice to biographers and until recently sat on the board of Biographers International Organisation.
Born in Kenya and brought up in Bermuda, he now lives in London near Westminster Abbey. He has a particular interest in spies, Scotland and revisionist biography.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights sold in US, Russia & Poland and for film.
UK: Hodder & Stoughton
US: St Martin’s Press
Poland: Bellona
Russia: Centrepolygraph
film rights sold
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