One book that hasn't been written yet but I'd love to read would be something about the everyday lives of the Cambridge Five in the USSR. Like, how Philby reacts to seeing his first Moskvitch in the wild. I think I'd find Philby the most sympathetic, Burgess the most insufferable and I'd hate Maclean the most because he seems too much like me (an A+ student, learns Russian right away, volunteers for the most arduous bureaucratic work).
That would make for a wonderful book. As I remember An Englishman Abroad (and granted it's been a long time) Bennett wanted to be sympathetic Burgess but GB still seemed extremely self-absorbed and superficial.
One book that hasn't been written yet but I'd love to read would be something about the everyday lives of the Cambridge Five in the USSR. Like, how Philby reacts to seeing his first Moskvitch in the wild. I think I'd find Philby the most sympathetic, Burgess the most insufferable and I'd hate Maclean the most because he seems too much like me (an A+ student, learns Russian right away, volunteers for the most arduous bureaucratic work).
That would make for a wonderful book. As I remember An Englishman Abroad (and granted it's been a long time) Bennett wanted to be sympathetic Burgess but GB still seemed extremely self-absorbed and superficial.