The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists

by David Burke

Book Overview

The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers

The Isokon building, also know as Lawn Road Flats, in London was the 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783274700
• ISBN13: 9781783274703
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"