The Lawn Road Flats : spies, writers and artists /

The Isokon building, Lawn Road Flats, in Belsize Park on Hampstead's lower slopes, is a remarkable building. The first modernist building in Britain to use reinforced concrete and architecture, its construction demanded new building techniques. But the building was as remarkable for those who t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Burke, David (Historian of intelligence and international relations)
Other Authors: Andrew, Christopher M. (author of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2014.
Series:History of British intelligence ; v. 3.
Subjects:
Isokon Building (London, England) > History > 20th century.
Espionage, Soviet > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Spies > Homes and haunts > England > London > History > 20th century.
Artists > Homes and haunts > England > London > History > 20th century.
Literary landmarks > England > London > History > 20th century.
Art and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Spies > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Spies > Great Britain > Biography.
Espionage, Soviet.
Artists.
Spies.
Espionnage soviétique.
Artistes.
Espions.
Espionnage soviétique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Espions > Résidences et lieux familiers > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Artistes > Résidences et lieux familiers > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Écrivains > Résidences et lieux familiers > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Art et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Espions > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Espions > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
artists (visual artists)
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Artists
Espionage, Soviet
Spies
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Biographies
History
Instructional and educational works.
Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Christopher Andrew
  • Prologue
  • Remembrance of things past ; Hampstead man among 'The Modernists'
  • National planning for the future and the arrival of Walter Gropius
  • 1935 : 'Art crystallises the emotions of an age.' : musicology and the art of espionage
  • Arnold Deutsch, Kim Philby and Austro-Marxism
  • The Isobar, Half-Hundred Club and the arrival of Sonya
  • The plot thickens : Jurgen Kuczynski, Agatha Christie and Colletts Bookshop
  • Refugees, the Kuczynski network, Churchill and Operation Barbarossa
  • Klaus Fuchs, Rothstein once more, and Charles Brasch
  • Vere Gordon Childe
  • "The New Statesman," Ho Chi Minh and the end of an era
  • Epilogue.

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