PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Geoff Andrews is a writer, journalist and historian, who specialises in the history of Italy and of twentieth-century communism. His books include The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure; Not a Normal Country: Italy After Berlusconi and Endgames and New Times: The Final Years of British Communism.
'This quite unapologetic and exciting biography rescues James Klugmann from the condescension of posterity and from those of us who regarded him (mistakenly) as simply a dull British communist apparatchik. By strongly contextualizing Klugmann's life, Geoff Andrews gives us a fuller picture of the man, an unswerving communist, a friend of the Cambridge spies, a recruit of Soviet intelligence, a senior SOE operative (under the nose of MI5), a great supporter of Tito before joining in Stalin's fatwa, and, yes, also an ultra-loyalist communist hack.' - Donald Sassoon, author of One Hundred Years of Socialism
