David Burke

The Lawn Road Flats

Spies, Writers and Artists

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The untold story of the iconic Hampstead building, completed in 1934, which was home to a remarkable list of residents, including Henry Moore, Agatha Christie and Bauhaus-founder Walter Gropius, as well as those with dark secrets. Many Soviet spies, such as Arnold Deutsch, senior agent and controller of the infamous Cambridge spy ring, were drawn to the building.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 309
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 838g
• ISBN-13: 9781843837831
• ISBN-10: 1843837838
• Artikelnr.: 39162947

Autorenporträt

David Burke

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - Prologue Remembrance of Things Past
Hampstead Man among `The Modernists' 'National Planning For The Future' and the arrival of Walter Gropius 1935: `Art crystallises the emotions of an age.' Musicology
and the art of Espionage Arnold Deutsch
Kim Philby and Austro-Marxism The Isobar
Half Hundred Club and the arrival of SONYA The Plot Thickens: Jurgen Kuczynski
Agatha Christie and Colletts Bookshop Refugees
The Kuczynski Network
Churchill and Operation Barbarossa Klaus Fuchs
Rothstein once more
and Charles Brasch Vere Gordon Childe The New Statesman
Ho Chi Minh
and The End of an Era Epilogue Bibliography