Stalin’s Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War and the Cambridge Spy - Andrew Lownie

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  • Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
  • Enduring long before and after its use during the Great War, espionage is as popular of an intelligence tactic as it is a thrilling theme. Join author Dr. Andrew Lownie for a lecture exploring the colorful career of English-born Soviet spy Guy Burgess. Ascending through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, Burgess became a member of the Cambridge Spy Ring and leaked thousands of highly sensitive secret documents to Russia.
    Hosted in partnership with The International Relations Council of Kansas City and the English Speaking Union.
    For more information about the National WWI Museum and Memorial visit theworldwar.org

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  • @DanBudda
    @DanBudda 2 місяці тому +7

    It could have been twice as long and still been worth the listening time. Thank you!

  • @jm162
    @jm162 2 місяці тому +6

    Fascinating topic!! Andrew is such a great researcher and speaker...I'll look at your other lectures.

  • @lequelle2580
    @lequelle2580 Місяць тому +3

    Watching from Norwich, Norfolk, England.
    Thank you for a wonderful programme.

  • @geoffbrown9054
    @geoffbrown9054 20 днів тому

    Knowingly passing the port the wrong way round the table - undoubtedly the beginning of the end. A superb presentation, thanks.

  • @michaeltowslee4111
    @michaeltowslee4111 5 місяців тому +8

    I've read a great deal on the Cambridge Spies. I've always wondered how many people died or suffered from the activities of these men and women.

    • @The2012GroupUFO
      @The2012GroupUFO 11 днів тому

      Philby alone sent hundreds of catholic dissidents in East Germany to their deaths including their families all so he could enjoy casinos and cocktails. Like all communists of the post war era an intensely evil selfish man without a soul.

  • @Wildflowers516
    @Wildflowers516 2 місяці тому +4

    Only learning of this wonderful book today - first through Shauna at Vintage Read :) lovely interview! I’ll be buying your book Andrew !

  • @jcollins1305
    @jcollins1305 Місяць тому +1

    Such an interesting speaker. I will have to read his book. Thank you for posting!

  • @brightonmuzahura205
    @brightonmuzahura205 10 місяців тому +5

    Tuning in from Nairobi Kenya. Good lecture.

  • @TheBeautifulWindsofAragon
    @TheBeautifulWindsofAragon 7 місяців тому +6

    Extremely interesting. Thank you!

  • @an2984
    @an2984 9 місяців тому +4

    Greetings from the Netherlands. Thank you for this most interesting lecture from the excellent dr. Lownie. Wish there are more coming of this quality on the you tube channel.

  • @carolinewalker3106
    @carolinewalker3106 9 місяців тому +5

    Thank you for this interesting and fascinating lecture .

  • @jonniemike
    @jonniemike Рік тому +8

    That was brilliant, Thank you.

  • @jilltagmorris
    @jilltagmorris 7 місяців тому +4

    Thank you for your work and presentations

  • @stevegoble6103
    @stevegoble6103 Рік тому +6

    Thanks for this love all the spy stuff, and Andrew writes great books.

  • @Dav1Gv
    @Dav1Gv Рік тому +3

    Very interesting. Hugh Sykes Davies was my uncle. As he married five or six times (he married the same woman twice so we're not sure of the count) so I doubt if he was homosexual.

    • @user-br3bw7wr2l
      @user-br3bw7wr2l 6 місяців тому +2

      Plenty of men married and had history of homosexuality. Schools were well know for it, particularly among the ‘old boy’ network.

    • @jcollins1305
      @jcollins1305 Місяць тому

      Marrying is no indication of heterosexuality. Seen many married men in compromising positions with other men.

  • @VickiNikolaidis
    @VickiNikolaidis Рік тому +2

    Very interesting. Amazing UK and USA didn't throw out espionage and concentrate on diplomacy after such a situation.

  • @ovadyadisrael9126
    @ovadyadisrael9126 5 місяців тому +2

    I'm from Jerusalem Israel. Originally from San Francisco California

  • @davidmcconnon2800
    @davidmcconnon2800 6 місяців тому

    Let it go bankrupt so the state can pick it up with no guarantee of existing debt.

  • @frederickbowdler8169
    @frederickbowdler8169 6 місяців тому +1

    Spies are a boring lot !!😅 and can be recognized easily by counting the number of their partners.

  • @mikewinston8709
    @mikewinston8709 Місяць тому +2

    Fun fact….McClean is buried in the parish church in my village; Penn, Buckinghamshire.