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500 years of Cambridge Spies! From Christopher Marlowe to Blunt, Burgess and Maclean - all these spies were educated at Cambridge University - this new book brings them all of the dark as never before!
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THE CUCKOOS' NEST - 500Years of Cambridge Spies
by Christopher Catherwood
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What do the dramatist and Shakespeare contemporary ChristopherMarlowe, the Elizabethan courtier Sir Francis Walsingham, and KimPhilby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and JohnCairncross all have in common?
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The answer is that they were all at Cambridge University and all ofthem were spies...This brilliant new book is the first to unite such a fascinating group ofpeople, and to explore this extraordinary 500-year continuity providedby their place of education. This direct continuity is something ofwhich Cambridge and its colleges are very aware, and which makes its uc h a unique place in the annals of espionage, treachery andintrigue.The murder of Christopher Marlowe in a tavern brawl is still a mystery,a subject upon which many books have been written, none withconclusive results. But there is one factor upon which they all agree –that his death was directly related to his activities as a spy. Some oftho s e involved, such as Robert Poley, were also Cambridgegraduates, and with the ideological war with Spain in the 16th centuryhaving strong parallels with the similar 20th century struggle of theCold War (not to mention the fight against fascism in the 1930s thatrecruited many Cambridge students to Marxism), the level of continuityis therefore remarkable yet again.The Cuckoos’ Nest examines and illustrates the common internationalthe me s of the times alongside the domestic political and socialatmospheres prevalent and elegantly and fascinatingly weaves theminto a spellbinding tale of treachery and treason.
D r Christopher Catherwood associated with Churchill College,Cambridge, was Consultant to the Strategic Futures Team Team of thePerformance and Innovation Unit at the Cabinet Office in 2002engaged in classified activities, and is the author of His Finest Hour(2010, Skyhorse), Churchill’s Folly (2004, Carroll and Graf) and of ABrief History of the Middle East (2010, Running Press) and manymore.
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