Andrew Lownie – Stalin’s Englishman

Stalin’s Englishman is the first full length biography of Guy Burgess, member of the ‘Cambridge Five’ spy ring. It has been painstakingly researched through interviews with more than one hundred people who knew him personally.

Andrew Lownie – Stalins Englishman coverBurgess was a highly colourful, bohemian and multi-faceted figure, not the minor member of the ring
alluded to by writers such as Alan Bennett. His establishment pedigree (Oxbridge, BBC, Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6) together with a considerable charm, enabled Burgess to dupe almost everyone around him, including Winston Churchill. Meanwhile he had access to thousands of classified documents which he passed on to Moscow.

Andrew Lownie was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Edinburgh and the London College of Law. He has been a bookseller, publisher and is now a successful literary agent.

His other books include a biography of John Buchan and a companion to Edinburgh. He has written extensively for publications including The Times, The Spectator and the Guardian.