Fee Download Treason in the Blood, by Anthony Cave Brown
Guides Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown, from simple to complex one will be an extremely valuable jobs that you can take to transform your life. It will not give you adverse declaration unless you don't obtain the significance. This is certainly to do in reading an e-book to get over the significance. Generally, this e-book qualified Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown is reviewed since you actually like this sort of publication. So, you could get less complicated to understand the impression and also definition. Once even more to consistently remember is by reviewing this publication Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown, you can satisfy hat your curiosity begin by finishing this reading book.
Treason in the Blood, by Anthony Cave Brown
Fee Download Treason in the Blood, by Anthony Cave Brown
New updated! The Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown from the very best author as well as author is now offered here. This is guide Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown that will make your day reviewing comes to be completed. When you are looking for the printed book Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown of this title in guide shop, you might not discover it. The troubles can be the limited editions Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown that are given up guide store.
Reviewing habit will certainly consistently lead individuals not to completely satisfied reading Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown, a book, 10 book, hundreds e-books, and much more. One that will certainly make them feel completely satisfied is finishing reviewing this book Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown as well as getting the message of guides, after that locating the other following e-book to review. It proceeds even more and also more. The time to complete reviewing a book Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown will be consistently different relying on spar time to invest; one example is this Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown
Now, exactly how do you know where to purchase this publication Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown Don't bother, now you may not go to guide store under the intense sun or night to look the publication Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown We here always assist you to find hundreds sort of publication. Among them is this e-book qualified Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown You might go to the link page given in this set then opt for downloading. It will not take more times. Simply attach to your web access as well as you can access guide Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown on the internet. Obviously, after downloading and install Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown, you might not publish it.
You can save the soft documents of this e-book Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown It will rely on your extra time and tasks to open up and also review this publication Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown soft file. So, you could not be afraid to bring this publication Treason In The Blood, By Anthony Cave Brown almost everywhere you go. Merely add this sot documents to your device or computer system disk to allow you read each time and also everywhere you have time.
Brown tells the extraordinary stories of Kim Philby, a renowned double agent, and his father and mentor, Harry St. John Bridger Philby, who played a key role in establishing the modern Middle East. In this dual biography, the author includes interviews, private papers of both St. John and Kim Philby, and previously unreleased photographs and KGB memoranda--providing an intriguing account of espionage.
- Sales Rank: #798000 in Books
- Published on: 1994-10-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 677 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Kim Philby, called by Brown "quite possibly the greatest unhanged scoundrel in modern British history," and his father, St. John, are profiled in this dual biography. Philby pere (1885-1960), after a brilliant academic career, worked for a time in the Crown's political department in India and the Middle East, even though he despised British imperialism. He resigned from the service over financial and diplomatic irregularities in 1924. He converted to Islam and became a power in Arabia as an unofficial member of the Privy Council, but no hard evidence exists that he was a spy. Nor, despite the book's title, does Brown make that contention. Born in India, Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1912-1987) was educated at Cambridge, where he made the acquaintance of several classmates who were to influence his life: Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and Donald Maclean (John Cairncross, one of the Cambridge Five, is hardly mentioned in this account). Brown discusses Philby's homosexual relationships at Cambridge and his indoctrination into the Communist Party but otherwise scants these crucial years. He details Philby's luck in being cleared for the Secret Service; his work disrupting the German intelligence prior to D-Day; his postwar service as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington; his part in the Burgess-Maclean escape to Russia in 1951 and his exoneration by the government. Also recounted are Philby's time as a foreign correspondent in Beirut and his defection to Moscow in 1963. Spy buffs will find Brown's (Bodyguard of Lies) perspective on Philby's post-Cambridge years interesting. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Treason in the blood? Father as role model? Philby & Son, Spies? Such Freudian stuff aside, this is as absorbing and instructive a book as history buffs and spy-story lovers will read in the current season. Brown (The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan, LJ 12/92) is an old hand at spy tales. Not Kipling and perhaps not even Le Carre could have devised such a father-son story as this. Kim Philby is, of course, at the core of the notorious Burgess-Maclean case; his father is less well known as an intriguer, adventurer (not to say scoundrel), and Orientalist who played a significant role in the emergence of Britain's imperial making of the modern Middle East. True, the Burgess-Maclean-Philby-Blunt story is heavily dissected in a number of books. This one brings together the Philby story as such but not with absolute finality; unanswered questions remain to tease the reader-about moles in London and about who Philby really served. But for a book that covers the modern "great game," this is one of the best.
--Henry Steck, SUNY at Cortland
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Two decades ago, Brown burst into the club of espionage historians with his popular Bodyguard of Lies, which unveiled the Allies' Ultra secret in World War II. Here he examines the career of the infamous British turncoat whom the Soviets buried with state honors. (To set the social and psychological context, Brown also folds in the life of Philby p{Š}ere, H. St. John. Kim, the younger blood, indisputably caused the deaths of hundreds of people, heinous enough, but mystery still envelops the magnitude of the damage he inflicted and the extent to which, if at all, he was protected from discovery by superiors in Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), or even by the CIA's James Angleton. While the SIS won't declassify its Philby file until 2025, Brown avails himself of the KGB's records and retired personnel still living who worked with S{™}ohnchen, their code name for their ace mole. His thorough research narrates Philby's recruitment in 1934 by Soviet agents and how they groomed him to penetrate the SIS, which occurred in 1940. The next 10 years, furnishing the bulk of this book, are crowded with Philby's wartime operations and concomitant rise through the ranks to a height (as chief of counterintelligence) that established his candidacy to become "C"--chief of the service. Unfortunately for him and the Soviets, his usefulness ended with the sensational defection in 1951 of comrade moles Burgess and MacLean--or did it? Brown is so skilled at synthesizing the minutiae of this case that spy catchers skulking about the stacks will inevitably be captivated by the story's outstanding enigmas. Gilbert Taylor
Most helpful customer reviews
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Five Stars for Topic; Three Stars for Research Methods
By F. S. L'hoir
Despite the implications of the title, "Treason in the Blood," Anthony Cave Brown presents a generally well-balanced portrayal of the life of Kim Philby, one of the Soviet Union's Cambridge spies, who had penetrated deeply into MI6 during World War II. Mr. Brown's entertaining account adds missing pieces to the puzzle, beginning with Philby's childhood and his admiration for his usually absent father, St. John, an adventurer who had become a friend and adviser to King Ibn Saud. Brown also presents an absorbing narrative of Kim Philby's depressingly ambiguous reception in the Soviet Union after his hasty departure from Beirut in 1963. The book, which juxtaposes a portrayal of Philby's headstrong father (based upon the elder Philby's reminiscences and letters to his long-suffering wife) with Kim's youth, education, entry and career in espionage (much of the latter being familiar territory), is a 'page-turner' in spite of its 637 pages (including index).
As fascinating as the account of Philby's life in Beirut and Moscow is, however, the reader must be cautious. The author frequently relies uncritically upon evidence supplied by those whose own axes were sharply honed, as it were, since Philby's defection either made them look like fools or cast a shadow of complicity over them. The author also relies occasionally upon a juxtaposition of unrelated events, offering several interpretations, including gossip-- introduced by "it is said"--and leaving the worst interpretation (in respect to Philby's motives) to the last, where it will linger in his readers' minds (This rhetorical technique of innuendo will be recognizable to readers of the Ancient Roman authors, Suetonius and Tacitus.).
Perhaps the author's most infuriating fault, however, is the tendency to bring up a question that begs, if not an answer, at least some comment. For example, on p. 518 he notes that Guy Burgess on his deathbed ("is said to have") denounced Philby as a British (and therefore triple) agent, but that Burgess nevertheless bequeathed most of his precious library, some furniture, and a considerable amount of money to Philby. Then the author moves on to another topic, Philby's legal status in the Soviet Union. The reader would like to learn more about Burgess' startling allegations and their implications. Only on p. 589 do we discover from a former KGB agent that Philby could not possibly have been a "British plant" since, being under continual Soviet scrutiny, he had "no contact" with the British in Moscow. Whom are we to believe?
Keeping these caveats in mind, the reader will nevertheless be rewarded with a tale of espionage that rarely ceases to enthrall.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Treason In the Blood
By Michael B. Davis
Reading "Kim" Philby's auto-biography "My Silent War" (1968) was for me a little like sitting at a dinner table expecting a gourmet meal and finding nothing more than a pea. On the contrary, Anthony Cave Brown's is a fiesta; don't come to dine without bringing two mouths and a doggie bag.
I have been facinated with Kim Philby, the man, for many years. Who was he and why did he do what he did. I thought "My Silent War" was the answer. It wasn't. I was deeply disappointed. Philby fed his readers crumbs laced with deception, which is consistent with the fact that he was the embodiment of the highest level of deception, treachery and espionage in the twentieth century. No one else in the period comes close.
Anthony Cave Brown did a masterful work on Philby and the book is nothing less than "over-kill". He researched no less than 20 areas in Philby's life, from that of his paternal grandfather to the Moscow cemetary where the spy is buried. Nothing is omitted.
It was always my opinion that to understand Philby the man I would have to know Philby the child. On that score Anthony Cave Brown does not disappoint. When Philby, in his KGB-aided auto-biography refused to say where, when and how he began his life as a Soviet secret operative, Brown answered those questions masterfully.
I have read many books on Kim Philby and the Cambridge Spies. "Treason in the Blood" is THE definitive book on the life of Kim Philby. Nothing else compares, period.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
The title promises more than the book delivers.
By A Customer
Brown paints engaging and detailed pictures of St. John and Kim Philby. The chapters on St. John are particularly interesting. To judge by Brown's book, the elder Philby led a more colorful, though less notorious life than his son Kim.
Brown ultimately fails to support his charge of treason against St. John Philby. The charge, implicit in the book's title, is never really followed through in the text. St. John, as described by Brown, was an active critic of British policy in Arabia, a gadfly, and ultimately an embittered nuisance. This is not the same as being a traitor, however.
The chapters on Kim contain no new blockbusters, though Brown draws his character deftly. Ultimately more interesting than Kim Philby the man, though, is Kim Philby the phenomenon.
Kim Philby continues to exert a fascination which extends far beyond his actual historical impact. His betrayal, and that of Burgess, MacLean, et al, seem to stand as emblematic of the decay of the English upper classes in the Post WWI period. While Brown does an admirable job painting his portrait of the man, he doesn't dwell on the question of why we still care about this brilliant, vain, aristocratic traitor.
Treason in the Blood, by Anthony Cave Brown PDF
Treason in the Blood, by Anthony Cave Brown EPub
Treason in the Blood, by Anthony Cave Brown Doc
Treason in the Blood, by Anthony Cave Brown iBooks
Treason in the Blood, by Anthony Cave Brown rtf
Treason in the Blood, by Anthony Cave Brown Mobipocket
Treason in the Blood, by Anthony Cave Brown Kindle
