Volume 10, Number 9 · May 9, 1968
The Ideal Husband
By Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Philby Conspiracy
by Bruce Page, by David Leitch, by Philip Knightley
Doubleday, 312 pp., $5.95
The Third Man
by E.H. Cookridge
Putnam's, 320 pp., $5.95
Kim Philby, The Spy I Married
by Eleanor Philby
Ballantine, 192 pp., $.75 (paperback) (paper)
My Silent War
by Kim Philby
Grove, 262 pp., $5.95
We have recently had a spate, if not a surfeit, of Kim Philby, the Englishman who, for thirty years—eleven of them inside the British Secret Service—spied for Russia and has now gone 'home.' What he did in those years is now generally known. What he is still something of a mystery. Here are three books about him and one by him. All reveal something about the psychology of this celebrated double-agent. Inevitably the last of them, his own book, is the most revealing. I shall therefore deal cursorily with the others and devote most of this review to it, which I find the most interesting of all.
Review, 3307 words
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