A spy named Orphan

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A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean 1st Edition by Roland Philipps (Author)/5(62). Drawing on formerly classified files, A Spy Named Orphan documents the extraordinary story of a model diplomat leading a chilling double-life until his exposure and.

Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era, a member of the infamous “Cambridge Five” spy ring, yet the extent of this shrewd, secretive man’s betrayal has never fully been explored/5(46). A great read. A Spy Named Orphan brings one of the most fascinating chapters in British history to light and life in vivid, page turning style.

Highly recommended/5(62). Biography books A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean – review I nDonald Maclean, then a senior diplomat at the British embassy in Cairo, and his American wife, Melinda, arranged Author: Rachel Cooke. With A Spy Named Orphan, the last piece of this bizarre jigsaw falls into place.

The outline story is familiar, but the amount of new detail here—on Maclean's personal, professional, and secret lives—exceeds all : Norton, W. & Company, Inc. Book review of A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean by Roland Philipps - The Washington Post Roland Philipps explores the ideology that prompted Donald Maclean’s traitorous actions.

A Spy Named Orphan by Roland Philipps review – the Enigma of Donald Maclean An effective counter to ‘He-Man’ espionage history, this humane study emphasises the Cambridge spy’s strength Author: Richard Davenport-Hines.

Considerably enriched by access to the newly available Foreign Office and M15 files on Maclean, A Spy Named Orphan tells his story more fully than any previous book about the “Magnificent Five,” as they were known to the KGB. A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean Hardcover – May 1 by Roland Philipps (Author)/5(54).

Roland Philipps went into publishing on graduating from Cambridge and until recently was Publisher of John Murray. He has edited some leading novelists, politicians, historians, travellers and biographers. A Spy Named Orphan, his first book, arises from lifelong connections to Donald Maclean and his story/5(62).

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A Spy Named Orphan, his first book, arises from lifelong connections to Donald Maclean and his story/5(60). Drawing on a wealth of previously classified files and unseen family papers, A Spy Named Orphan meticulously documents his extraordinary story.

Roland Philipps unravels Maclean's character and contradictions, informed by a domineering father in a childhood at once liberal and : $   A SPY NAMED ORPHAN THE ENIGMA OF DONALD MACLEAN by Roland Philipps ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, A tale of the tangled web spun by a Briton who spied for the Soviet Union and ended his days in Moscow : Roland Philipps.

In this often exciting narrative, Philipps uses a trove of recently declassified files to trace the arc of Russian spy Donald Maclean’s life. While studying at Cambridge, Maclean became a. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified files and unseen family papers, A Spy Named Orphan meticulously documents his extraordinary story.

Roland Philipps unravels Maclean’s character and contradictions, informed by a domineering father in a childhood at once liberal and austere. Even after the passage of more than half a century, anyone even vaguely familiar with national security clearances must blink at British handling of the coterie of Soviet spies known as "The.

A Spy Named Orphan, his first book, arises from lifelong connections to Donald Maclean and his story. Read more. A SPY NAMED ORPHAN: The Enigma Of Donald Maclean THE author of A Spy Named Orphan is a grandson of Sir Roger Makins, the senior diplomat who was the last man from the Foreign Office to see Donald 4/5.

Yet little is known of this shrewd, secretive man. The full extent of his betrayal has never been documented - until now. Drawing on the recent release of previously classified files, A Spy Named Orphan meticulously documents the extraordinary story of a man leading a chilling double life until his exposure and defection to the USSR.

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean Roland Philipps Donald Maclean is the most infamous of Britain’s twentieth-century spies, a double agent who defected to the Soviet Union, and whose betrayal plunged the Cold War alliance between Britain and the United States into crisis."[A] lively and beautifully engineered biography." — John Banville, New York Review of Books, A Spy Named Orphan, The Soviet Agent Who Stole the West's.

The infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring, effectively headed by Donald Maclean, but which also included Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and the so-called "Fifth Man", John Cairncross, was the.