The Red and the Blue: Intelligence, Treason and the Universities (Coronet Books) - Softcover

The red and the blue. Intelligence treason and the universities

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 211 pages. ?Brilliant and disturbing? ? The Sunday TimesCambridge University between the wars was a clash of two Science and Art.On the one hand, the re was the brilliant Cavendish Laboratory physicists who split the atom and late r discovered the genetic secrets of life. They believed in making their research available to all, even scientists in enemy counties such as Russia, until the s tart of the Cold War.On the other hand, the were the visionary intellect uals, epitomised by the Apostles, the secret society which so profoundly influen ced the economics, literature, politics and philosophy of this century. Their id eas were secret and controlled.This book provides a fresh insight into t he activities of the Cambridge spies, tracing the development of the ?two cult ures?, their eventual conflict and how it led to startling changes that have t ransformed our world.Andrew Sinclair casts a new perspective over their activities and compares them to those of their contemporaries in the university? ??s experimental laboratories. He contrasts the Cambridge ethos in the 1930s wit h that of the 1950s, when he himself was at Trinity. He uses the microcosm of th e university since 1918 to examine the eventual clash of the ?two cultures?, and to study the important changes that have altered our world, in particular i n Intelligence ? its discoveries, morale, organization and uses. ? Both useful and entertaining ? useful in that it compendiously summarises and brings up to date much other work on the Cambridge traitors, and entertaining be cause of the sharpness and elegance of his writing? ? Daily Telegraph?A brave and witty attempt to place the Cambridge Comintern within a much bro. Artikel-Nr. 2786bn

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