Cambridge Five: British Spies for the Soviets

They were recruited not by coercion or money, but by conviction. Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross were among Britain's most privileged young men-educated at Cambridge, destined for the establishment-who chose, in the shadow of rising fascism, to spy for the Soviet Union. For nearly three decades, they passed some of the most sensitive intelligence in West...