In studying Blunt's crucial Cambridge years, Carter meticulously relates the appeal of Marxism to intellectual young people: guilt over being a member of a privileged class, the desire to believe ...

Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and the Nation, and the author of, most recently, "Letters to a Young Contrarian." If I declare an interest in this book, I also confess a tiny ...

But speaking at the time the ITN interview with Anthony Blunt was broadcast, Sir George Young, the former head of MI6 felt that Blunt's interview left much to be desired.

Spy who came in from the Courtauld As a KGB talent-spotter, Anthony Blunt was a failure. But as an art historian, he excelled. It's because of his influence, Miranda Carter says, that many of his ...