Shadow Man

Geoff Andrews is an historian and biographer who has written widely on the history of political ideas and movements and twentieth century British and Italian politics. He is Senior Lecturer in Politics at The Open University and author of The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle (2015) and Not a Normal Country: Italy After Berlusconi (2005).

• Prologue1. Hampstead: Bourgeois Beginnings2. Outsider at Gresham’s3. A Cambridge Communist 4. Organising the Movement 5. Mentor and Talent Spotter6. The Making of a Communist Intellectual7. Working for the Comintern 8. The Professional Revolutionary9. The Spy Circle10. The Reluctant Spy11. A Communist Goes to War12. Comrade or Conspirator?13. Great Expectations14. Cold War Intellectual15. Trials and Tribulations16. The Party Functionary: 1956 and After17. Lost Generation18. Late Spring19. Hopes and Fears20. A Good Jesuit

A fascinating study of the intellectual and moral ossification that can result from an addiction to dogma. Geoff Andrews has done his research…well-written and thought-provoking account.