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  • Red List

    MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century

    by David Caute ...
    A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century.In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is know chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who pose a threat to the country's national security--from Nazi fifth columnists during the Second World War, to Soviet ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Isaac and Isaiah

    The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic

    by David Caute ...
    Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians’ scrutiny. In this gripping account of the ideological clash between two of the most influential scholars of Cold War politics, David Caute uncovers a hidden story of passionate beliefs, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Politics and the Novel During the Cold War

    by David Caute ...
    David Cautes wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history. In the United States and Western Europe the political novel flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, the crisis years of economic depression, fascism, the Spanish Civil War,the consolidation of Stalinism, and the Second World War. Starting with the high ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

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    Red List

    MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century

    by David Caute ...
    Narrated by Dennis Kleinman ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 30 min

    A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth centuryIn the popular imagination, MI5—or the Security Service—is know chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who pose a threat to the country’s national security, from Nazi fifth columnists during the Second World War to Soviet spies ... Read more

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