Buy this book on-line CARTER, Miranda : Anthony Blunt : his livesFarrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 2001 ISBN 0374105316
B&W Photographs; 590 pages; Spine ends bumped, a few page edges creased. Unclipped dust wrapper is lightly edgeworn and rubbed with a short closed tear at front flap corner. A nice copy.; A comprehensive and engrossing look at the multiple lives of Anthony Blunt, art historian, author, director of the Courtauld Institute, and MI5 agent during WWII. Blunt was also a member of the "Cambridge Spies" group (along with Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Donald Maclean) that passed secrets and documents to the Soviet Union.The book attempts to separate facts from the many incorrect stories published in books and in the media when PM Margaret Thatcher exposed Blunt in 1979., Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of CARTER, Miranda : Anthony Blunt : his lives. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Carter, Miranda : Anthony Blunt: His LivesFarrar, Straus And Giroux, New York, 1991 ISBN 0374105316
590pp. B&W Photographs. Black remainder mark on bottom edges. Blunt (1907-1983) was a British art historian and spy. He began his espionage for the Soviet Union after meeting Guy Burgess at the University of Cambridge in the 1930 s. From 1937 Blunt had a brilliant career as an art historian, publishing scores of scholarly works that largely established art history in Britain. In World War II he served in British military intelligence and also gave secret information to the Soviets, Thick 8vo, Fine in Fine DJ Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Carter, Miranda : Anthony Blunt: His Lives. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. |