Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire

Join author, journalist and critic Antonia Senior in an enthralling and chilling new exploration of the Cambridge Five. Using recently declassified files and deep research, Stalin’s Apostles explores how Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, John Cairncross and Anthony Blunt became tools in Stalin’s imperial scheme responsible directly and indirectly for the death of thousands of men and women fighting against Soviet domination. This gripping new book shows how the legacy of the Cambridge Five is not only in the graveyards of eastern Europe, but at the heart of Putin's Kremlin.

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'A history of the Cambridge spies that is as good as anything I have read...magnificent.'The Times

Sunday 6th September 4:00pm