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001 2014397680
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020 $a9781843837831 (hbk)
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050 00 $aNA970$b.B87 2014
100 1 $aBurke, David$c(Historian of intelligence and international relations),$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Lawn Road Flats :$bspies, writers and artists /$cDavid Burke.
264 1 $aWoodbridge, Suffolk, UK ;$aRochester, NY:$bThe Boydell Press,$c2014.
300 $axx, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aHistory of British intelligence,$x1756-5685
500 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index.
520 8 $aThe Isokon building, Lawn Road Flats, in Belsize Park on Hampstead's lower slopes, is a remarkable building. The first modernist building in Britain to use reinforced concrete in domestic architecture, its construction demanded new building techniques. But the building was as remarkable for those who took up residence there as for the application of revolutionary building techniques. There were 32 Flats in all, and they became a haunt of some of the most prominent Soviet agents working against Britain in the 1930s and 40s, among them Arnold Deutsch, the controller of the group of Cambridge spies who came to be known as the "Magnificent Five" after the Western movie 'The Magnificent Seven'; the photographer Edith Tudor-Hart; and Melita Norwood, the longest-serving Soviet spy in British espionage history. However, it wasn't only spies who were attracted to the Lawn Road Flats, the Bauhaus exiles Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer; the pre-historian V. Gordon Childe; and the poet (and Bletchley Park intelligence officer) Charles Brasch all made their way there. A number of British artists, sculptors and writers were also drawn to the Flats, among them the sculptor and painter Henry Moore; the novelist Nicholas Monsarrat; and the crime writer Agatha Christie, who wrote her only spy novel 'N or M? in the Flats'. The Isokon building boasted its own restaurant and dining club, where many of the Flats' most famous residents rubbed shoulders with some of the most dangerous communist spies ever to operate in Britain.
610 20 $aIsokon Building (London, England)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aEspionage, Soviet$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSpies$xHomes and haunts$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aArtists$xHomes and haunts$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aLiterary landmarks$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSpies$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSpies$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aArtists$vBiography.
650 0 $aAuthors$vBiography.
776 08 $iAlso available online:$aBurke, David.$tLawn road flats.$dWoodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2014$w(OCoLC)874142978
830 0 $aHistory of British intelligence,$x1756-5685