Stalin's Englishman. The Many Lives of Guy Burgess

This book is about Guy Burgess - an unrecognized genius of espionage and the most eccentric agent of Soviet intelligence. In 1951, Burgess fled to the USSR and for twelve years faithfully served the country that had accepted him, however, remaining English to the core, he never managed to adapt to life in Stalinist Russia. The activity of the true leader of the Cambridge Five remains the subject of various conjectures and speculations to this day, contemporaries and KGB curators give the most contradictory and ambiguous characteristics of his personality. Andrew Lownie managed to create a multi-faceted portrait of an extraordinary, flawed intellectual, a representative of the generation of Western left-wing intelligentsia, which in the 1930s and 1940s found itself in the grip of communist ideology.