The Missing Diplomats

By Cyril Connolly,

Book cover of The Missing Diplomats

Book description

Coming soon!
Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Why read it?

1 author picked The Missing Diplomats as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The first account of the Burgess and Maclean story – it was published a year after their flight – this fifty page essay, based on a collection of articles in the Sunday Times, by someone who knew both men contains shrewd pen portraits of the two spies and the roots of their spying. “Politics begin in the nursery; no one is born patriotic or unpatriotic, right-wing or left-wing, and it is the child whose craving for love is unsatisfied, whose desire for power is thwarted or whose innate sense of justice is warped that eventually may try to become…

From Andrew's list on Guy Burgess (Cambridge Spy Ring).

Want books like The Missing Diplomats?

Our community of 11,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Missing Diplomats.

Browse books like The Missing Diplomats

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in Guy Burgess, espionage, and spies?

Guy Burgess 6 books
Espionage 597 books
Spies 624 books