Great Internationalists

Rupert Cornwell

  • Philby: The Life and Views of the KGB Masterspy by Phillip Knightley
    Deutsch, 291 pp, £14.95, October 1988, ISBN 0 223 98360 8
  • Mask of Treachery: The First Documented Dossier on Blunt, MI5 and Soviet Subversion by John Costello
    Collins, 761 pp, £18.00, November 1988, ISBN 0 00 217536 3
  • A Divided Life: A Biography of Donald Maclean by Robert Cecil
    Bodley Head, 212 pp, £15.00, October 1988, ISBN 0 370 31129 9
  • The Storm Birds: Soviet Post-War Defectors by Gordon Brook-Shepherd
    Weidenfeld, 303 pp, £14.95, November 1988, ISBN 0 297 79464 7

Only at the very last did my path cross that of the Cambridge spies. It was on a warm, sunny afternoon last May at Kuntsevo Cemetery on the western outskirts of Moscow, when they buried Kim Philby. Guy Burgess had died in 1963, Anthony Blunt and Donald Maclean in 1983. Philby, however, was still alive when I started work in Moscow as the Independent’s correspondent there in early 1987, and his presence was a source of recurrent nightmares.

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