A review by ndsr
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess by Andrew Lownie

5.0

An absolutely masterpiece of modern biography. The amount of work put into the research for this book is overwhelming, and if the level of detail is sometimes too high, that is the worst that can be said for this book. Lownie documents in careful detail, and, rather than speculating or interpreting events, includes numerous accounts with conflicting points of view. This is an example of what modern biography should strive to do, and certainly must be the authoritative biography of a figure who has been written about extensively already.