THE GREAT SPY SCANDAL.: Inside Story of BURGESS and MACLEAN.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG. No owner inscrptn and price-clipped dw/dj.Wrap-around,glossy,red+black vertical sections (approx. 2/3rds and 1/3rd respectively) illustrated dw/dj with subjects' b/w thumbnail portrait photographs to front red panel, capitalised white lettered title with red illustrated hammer+sickle beneath to front black section,and black-lettered sub-title in front red section,a lightly sunned spine/backstrip with black lettering,rear panel of dw/dj with glossy red backgrond and black+red thumbnail illustrated publisher's colophon. Some minimal shelf-wear,bumping, ,creasing to edges and corners - with some chipping and miniscule colour paper loss to same,closed tears to both top+lower front corners.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned but without foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,solid and sound,glossy pages to text body,so clean and without foxing - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips -seems unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp clean,sharp-cornered plain brick red cloth boards with some faint residual transfer from dw/dj's internal glossy finish to respective boards and bright,crisp,blocked black ink lettering,generally clean,plain white endpapers but with vertical strip shadowing to each of front verso and rear reverse respectively, of the free endpapers - a tiny ink date stamp (23 Dec 1955) to reverse of rear free endpaper. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5- 192pp [paginated] includes contents list/table with illustrations list/table to its reverse,a Foreword by Arthur Christianson,Editor-in Chief,DAILY EXPRESS,19 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w biographical photographs and b/w facsimile illustration reproductions,an Appendix and 2pp Names that made the news Index (excludes the three principal characters. Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable,and even internally, the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 68 year-old age. It is only the exterior faults that prevents a slightly higher grading for the dw/dj. Despite them,it really is an acceptable copy for its cleanliness and brightness. The furor erupted when Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean - two of the so-called 'Cambridge Five' - disappeared in 1951.They had defected and later resurfaced in Moscow.Both were hopeless drunks,unstable and promiscuous characters who'd been appointed to top jobs in London and at the British Embassy in Washington,D.C.The British Embassy reported back that the international incident had "severely shaken the State Department's confidence in the integrity of officials of the Foreign Office".  The unmasking of the first two of the Cambridge Five came a little more than a year after the 1949 arrest of nuclear spy Klaus Fuchs, so the relationship between British and US intelligence was further compromised when Britain was dealt a third blow: Kim Philby, Britain's chief liaison with the American intelligence agencies in the US capital, was a member of the spy ring. Philby's betrayal was not just an embarrassment for Britain, it was a threat to US national security.Philby had worked closely with James Jesus Angleton, CIA chief of counterintelligence, and the Brit liaised with the FBI at a time when director J. Edgar Hoover was convinced Soviet spies were everywhere. Philby had also been briefed on Washington's Venona project, a program to decrypt top-secret messages transmitted by Soviet Union intelligence agencies including the KGB. Philby is suspected of tipping off Maclean and Burgess, telling them their covers were blown, but remarkably Philby continued to operate for more than a decade before Philby too defected to Moscow in 1963. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.