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Spies, Sex & Stalin: The Dark Truth About the Cambridge Five
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Were the Cambridge Five glamorous rebels… or something far darker?
In this episode of History Book Buffs, Antonia Senior joins Roger Moorhouse from Cambridge itself to unpack the reality behind Britain’s most infamous spy ring: the Cambridge Five.
From the dreaming spires where it all began to the deadly consequences across Eastern Europe, this is a complete reframing of a story too often told as a quirky tale of establishment betrayal.
How Kim Philby and his network were recruited
Why these spies pretended to be fascists to hide their loyalties
The…
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