Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire by Antonia Senior #joyce escaped in the nick of

escaped in the nick of time by landing-craft across stormy seas to Portsmouth

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Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire by Antonia Senior #joyce escaped in the nick ofSTALIN'S APOSTLES is a radical new look at the way five people allowed their obsession with Communist ideology to overshadow any sense of morality or decency or loyalty to their country. Why did these gilded charming men, blessed with brains, and beauty and opportunities, choose to betray their country? Using recently declassified files, STALIN'S APOSTLES explores as never before the treachery of Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, John