The lawn road flats : spies, writers and artists / David Burke

Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2014. 1st edition. Hardcover. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Series: History of British intelligence. Physical description: 271 pages, including index. Contents: Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Christopher Andrew; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Dramatis personae; Prologue; 1 Remembrance of Things Past, Hampstead Man among 'The Modernists'; 2 National Planning for the Future and the Arrival of Walter Gropius; 3 1935: 'Art crystallises the emotions of an age.' Musicology and the Art of Espionage; 4 Arnold Deutsch, Kim Philby and Austro-Marxism; 5 The Isobar, Half Hundred Club and the Arrival of Sonya; 6 The Plot Thickens: Jurgen Kuczynski, Agatha Christie and Colletts Bookshop. 7 Refugees, The Kuczynski Network, Churchill and Operation Barbarossa8 Klaus Fuchs, Rothstein once more, and Charles Brasch; 9 Vere Gordon Childe; 10 The New Statesman, Ho Chi Minh and the End of an Era; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Backcover. Subjects: Isokon Building (London, England) History 20th century. Espionage, Soviet. Artists. Spies.