The Butcher’s Embrace by Verne W. Newton (.PDF)
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The Butcher’s Embrace: The Philby Conspirators in Washington (1991) by Verne W. Newton
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Overview: THE BUTCHER’S EMBRACE chronicles the pivotal moves in the geopolitical poker-game played between 1944 and 1951 when, at various times, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and Guy Burgess were posted to the British Embassy in Washington — a setting for the most significant spy drama in Western history.
For, largely ignored in other books, the Washington tours of these three men indicate that these were the most important years of their treacherous careers.
Maclean, in particular, steps out of the shadow of the roguish Philby and the outrageously flamboyant Burgess and emerges as one of the most dangerous Soviet agents ever to operate in the West. He was in the USA the longest, was the highest ranking and had the greatest access to documents and officials. The reader is enabled to follow a spy at work behind enemy lines,
and watch in fascination and horror as he sabotages Western foreign policy.
For five years Verne W. Newton has dug through American and British archives, and interviewed British, American and Soviet officials. The grippingly told result is based on hundreds of newly-released documents from the State Department, the CIA, the FBI, and a treasure trove of material discovered in the British Public Records Office.
This extensive research has enabled the author to unearth exactly which secrets these men had access to, what the Soviets did with them, and how it affected Allied policy. The book thus illuminates the missing dimension to the post-war history of espionage — the story of how Stalin’s agents affected the course of events from the dying embers of the Second World War to the outbreak of the Korean War, by telling him the hand the West held and how the West intended to play it.
THE BUTCHER’S EMBRACE breathes new life into characters fossilized by countless reprises of the three men’s British years. Its concentration on these seven years provides a dramatic focus that intensifies the impact of their actions. The book will spark new historical debates on issues of abiding interest and concern — the Soviet Union’s relations’with the West, atomic energy and the treachery of men in high places.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History > Espionage & Intelligence
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