The Lawn Road Flats : spies, writers and artists
David Burke (Author)
The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers
1 v. (XX-271 p. -[16] p. de plates) : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781843837831, 1843837838
1091985245
Foreword - PrologueRemembrance of Things Past, Hampstead Man among `The Modernists''National Planning For The Future' and the arrival of Walter Gropius1935: `Art crystallises the emotions of an age.' Musicology, and the art of EspionageArnold Deutsch, Kim Philby and Austro-MarxismThe Isobar, Half Hundred Club and the arrival of SONYAThe Plot Thickens: Jurgen Kuczynski, Agatha Christie and Colletts BookshopRefugees, The Kuczynski Network, Churchill and Operation BarbarossaKlaus Fuchs, Rothstein once more, and Charles BraschVere Gordon ChildeThe New Statesman, Ho Chi Minh, and The End of an EraEpilogueBibliography
Bibliogr. p. 255-261. Index