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Hace 4 días · Anthony Blunt was the Windsors' chief art curator for decades but he was also one of the 'Cambridge Five' spy ring. A book called 'The Secret Royals: Spying And The Crown From Victoria To Diana' by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac revealed that the man many believed to have been an art historian, was in fact a double agent who worked ...
Hace 5 días · Blunt published several books on art and art history. His extensive knowledge and passion for the subject are evident in his written works, which remain influential in the field. The true extent of Blunt’s espionage activities may never be fully known.
Hace 5 días · The Best of Our Spies (Spies #1) — An extraordinary World War II spy story grounded in historical fact. The Swiss Spy (Spies #2) — World War II spies in Switzerland. Vienna Spies (Spies #3) — A stirring tale of spies in wartime Vienna. The Berlin Spies (Spies #4) — The best spy novelist you’ve never read.
Hace 4 días · The novel pivots on the existence of the long-rumored “sixth man” of the Cambridge Five, which included the notorious Soviet spies Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross. (In fact, some observers believe there may have been as many as eight or 10 spies in the Cambridge ring.)
Hace 1 día · Yet in works such as The World of Ancient Art, published after his retirement, ... and wrote handbooks on Greek sculpture and vases, ... having been invited to do so by Sir Anthony Blunt, ...
Hace 5 días · He has written a hundred pieces for the LRB, starting early in 1980 with an account of being in a taxi queue with the spy Anthony Blunt, ‘fervently cheerful’ now his secret had been revealed.
Hace 5 días · Anthony Blunt talks art with the Queen. 88 mins 04 May 2024. Call Jonathan Pie. ... Shorts Works. Mister Derek, Goosegrass. Short fiction by Alice Malseed and Emma Kane, ...
