{"product_id":"the-shadow-man-9781350405233","title":"The Shadow Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies. As both mentor and friend to Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and others, Klugmann was the man who manipulated promising recruits deemed ripe for conversion to the communist cause. This perception of him was reinforced following the release of his MI5 file and the disclosure of Soviet intelligence files in Moscow, which revealed he played a key part in the recruitment of John Cairncross, the ''fifth man'', and had a pivotal war-time role in the Special Operations Executive, helping shift Churchill and the allies to support Tito and the communist partisans in Yugoslavia. In this book, Geoff Andrews reveals Klugmann''s story in full for the first time, uncovering the motivations, conflicts and illusions of those drawn into the world of communism - and the sacrifices they made on its behalf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating study of the intellectual and moral ossification that can result from an addiction to dogma. Geoff Andrews has done his research…well-written and thought-provoking account. -- Alan Judd, Literary Review\u003cbr\u003eGeoff Andrews has done a fine job in piecing together the story. This fascinating biography illuminates the world of the mid-twentieth century Communist intellectuals: the idealism that motivated them, and the choices that they had to make. -- Tom Buchanan, Professor of Modern British and European History, University of Oxford\u003cbr\u003eIn his illuminating, sympathetic, but far from sycophantic, biography of Klugmann, a leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Geoff Andrews paints a picture of a troubled intellectual who sacrificed his integrity through rigid devotion to the party. -- Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue  1. Hampstead: Bourgeois Beginnings  2. Outsider at Gresham’s  3. A Cambridge Communist   4. Organising the Movement   5.  Mentor and Talent Spotter  6. The Making of a Communist Intellectual  7. Working for the Comintern   8. The Professional Revolutionary  9. The Spy Circle  10. The Reluctant Spy  11. A Communist Goes to War  12. Comrade or Conspirator?  13. Great Expectations  14. Cold War Intellectual  15. Trials and Tribulations  16. The Party Functionary: 1956 and After  17. Lost Generation  18. Late Spring  19. Hopes and Fears  20. A Good Jesuit","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407547048279,"sku":"9781350405233","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350405233.jpg?v=1730499739","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-shadow-man-9781350405233","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}